In my year of only racing a few times, and those races have to be expensive, I did a cheap simple 5k, in fact we all did. All except Maya, cause she is lazy, I am not being mean I am stating a fact.
Basically decided to do the race a few days prior, mentioned it to Luke and apparently he wanted to do it to, cause he definitely trains to race. (This is a sarcastic comment) There was a 1k as well, so we offered it to Ever and he said, no, which we took to mean yes cause it takes him a while to warm up to ideas.
This is the year of ironman, so of course I did an 80k ride prior with just in time to get changed, say hello to a few people and toe the line. Small race- 67 people between the 5 and 10k, an additional 30 people in the 5k walk. From the get go, only one other female in front of me, comfortable pace. Actually a really nice course, featuring the prettest streets in Chesley and a old railway bridge that as been renovated to a pedestrian walking bridge, there was even some nice trail. Shaded, which was good cause I was hot, hot and dumped water at the water stations on myself. Passed the lone female in front of me at around 3k and just cruised in with some kid boys. Final time 23:46, pace of 4:45. By no means a PB, but an ok effort considering I was not working as hard as I could have. Luke, apparently worked as hard as he could, and was sore for two days. Funny at the finish line repeatedly hearing the race announcer stating people were crossing the finish line in a time of 24:28. This was repeated for at least five minutes. Clearly he had no idea of how time passes.
The kids race seemed to be the main draw with 86 participants. Which I missed. I texted Luke in the middle of my ride to say that he had better check the start time of the kids race, so I missed Evers epic battle for 4th pace, being beat out only by a 12, 11, and 9 year old. Although there were 9 and 10 year olds in the 5k with very respectable sub 25min times. Evers time was 5:40 for 1k so could use some work. The fun was at the finish line where he was given a metal as first female... yah then they took it away. Good times.
