I’ve entered my first 5K

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I’ve decided to give myself an extra bit of incentive to keep up with C25K by entering a 5K race at the end of March.

Oh boy, I never thought I would ever do this or even desire to do this!

I’ve selected the 1st race of the Run Auckland series for a few reasons:

1. It is pretty close to where I live.
2. It is on the 30th of March which is about two weeks after I’m scheduled to complete the C25K program.
3. It is the first race of a series. In moments of madness I like to think I may want to do a few more.

This is the route map:

Route Map

Now I just need to pray it doesn’t rain.

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16 Responses to “I’ve entered my first 5K”

  1. Rain? You can still run even if it rains right? :P

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  2. I can, but it will be wet. :p

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  3. Sounds like a good personal challenge.

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  4. Hopefully the first of many. :)

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  5. Great, good for you! Actually, I will be doing a 5K that same day, so we will be doing our first races on the same day! Very cool. (Although you will do yours about 18 hours ahead of me, of course - I am on the US East Coast.)

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  6. Great stuff Chiocciola!

    Heh…judging by my form in the gym today I’m going to be the slowest runner there. :)

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  7. But you will be wet in any case :P

    Well, I can always enter, that way you won’t be the slowest runner, I will!

    Who cares if you are slow, right?

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  8. I don’t really care what speed I go at as long as I finish!

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  9. Great job! I still haven’t looked into races around here this spring (which is later than March in Minnesota!) but I do have that as a goal. Can’t wait to hear how you like it. Hopefully it will lead to more.

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  10. Oh hey, by the way Andrew the email address you use when you comment on my site may be wrong - I always get return failures from gmail when I try to email you. Use my contact form to send me your correct email.

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  11. Hey Andrew,

    Great stuff, impressed with your determination & results. Now thinking of doing this race as well, considering that I run in that park (when i’m not too lazy :) ). So might see you there.
    Good luck in any case!

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  12. Hey Dmitry! That would be great.

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  13. What the hell? I’ve subscribed do your blog’s feed and come to the site to find out what’s up and why you haven’t blogged for a while and I find out all these posts that I’ve missed out on! Entering a 5k n’all! Cor blimey!

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  14. And in a moment of madness on my end - if you do the Western Springs one on the 22nd of June, I’ll do it with you.

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  15. Whoo hoo…more motivation to keep running! Fear of being chicked by Marshmallow.

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  16. Hahaahha! But hey, you’d kick my ass when it comes to pushups, I’m hopeless at those things and always need to modify :-(

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