I’ve entered my first 5K

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. SallyNo Gravatar on February 7th, 2008 9:36 pm

    Rain? You can still run even if it rains right? :P
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  2. AndrewNo Gravatar on February 7th, 2008 9:37 pm

    I can, but it will be wet. :p
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  3. JohnNo Gravatar on February 8th, 2008 7:16 am

    Sounds like a good personal challenge.

  4. AndrewNo Gravatar on February 8th, 2008 9:42 am

    Hopefully the first of many. :)
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  5. ChiocciolaNo Gravatar on February 8th, 2008 4:05 pm

    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.)

  6. AndrewNo Gravatar on February 8th, 2008 5:37 pm

    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. SallyNo Gravatar on February 8th, 2008 8:03 pm

    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. AndrewNo Gravatar on February 8th, 2008 8:04 pm

    I don’t really care what speed I go at as long as I finish!
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  9. From Fat to FitNo Gravatar on February 8th, 2008 11:08 pm

    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. From Fat to FitNo Gravatar on February 8th, 2008 11:48 pm

    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. Dmitry SelitskiyNo Gravatar on February 9th, 2008 5:33 pm

    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. AndrewNo Gravatar on February 9th, 2008 5:48 pm

    Hey Dmitry! That would be great.
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  13. MarshmallowNo Gravatar on February 10th, 2008 7:41 pm

    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!

  14. MarshmallowNo Gravatar on February 10th, 2008 7:50 pm

    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.

  15. AndrewNo Gravatar on February 11th, 2008 6:06 am

    Whoo hoo…more motivation to keep running! Fear of being chicked by Marshmallow.
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  16. MarshmallowNo Gravatar on February 11th, 2008 9:56 am

    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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