Shredding the Fatness: Race #7: July

17 July 2015

Race #7: July - FroYo 10k

My goal this year has been, as you know, to run a race every month. But July came and I had not registered for any race. Signing up for a race this late in the game is pretty expensive. And just not what I am able to do right now. So, I had to accept that there would be no race for me this month. But then, on Friday, my Hubby called home from work. He had a co-worker who had an extra entry to the FroYo 10k race in Salt Lake City, and he wanted to know if I wanted to run it. For Free!! I jumped at the chance.

The FroYo Run was held at Liberty Park in Salt Lake City. This is a beautiful park. The run is 4 loops around the park. I parked in the regular parking area. I got there later than I had planned and usually like because I forgot to set my alarm, but it looked as though this race also had Zumba as their pre-race warm-up.

I met up with my Hubby's co-worker and her friends. We all lined up in our respective areas. I have never seen a timed race go out in waves, but I liked it. This gave all the faster/want-to-win people the opportunity to run their race without having to dodge all the slower runners. Especially at the beginning. I am not one of those faster runners, so I was comfortably back near the 10 min/mile people.

The Start:

We headed out and I was feeling pretty good. The first 5k was awesome, but I haven't actually run a 10k distance in 4 months. This means, I started out way too fast and spent the second 5k dying. We walked a couple of times. I didn't think that running a loop would be so hard, but looking at the same thing over and over again didn't help with my dying lungs.

I finished this race in 1 hr, 6 min, and 35 sec. This placed me 81st overall. I'm feeling good about that. Especially since I didn't train for this one.