I did it! My first 5k.

[Bikingmomof3]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[emily_in_nc]

Congratulations! I can imagine how wonderful that must have felt!!!

I was just like you growing up, 'cept I was the pasty, skinny girl with asthma and allergies who often missed 40 days of school in a year because I was so sickly (thank goodness I was smart or I never could have kept up). I was a terrible athlete, picked last for all teams, hated gym with a passion and figured out a zillion creative ways to get out of it.

Fast forward to now...thanks to being married to a wonderful man to whom athletics always came easily (he played baseball and ran track as a kid), I've become an "athlete" myself -- road cycling, mountain biking, doing long hikes, kayaking, and yes, even running! I am up to 2.5 miles at about an 11-minute mile pace. Slow and short, yes, but to me, it means the world since I could barely run the 100 yard dash as a kid! And it's even more meaningful since I fractured my ilium in 2005 and had to have surgery to put it back together (have a 6" metal plate in my pelvis plus four pins, couldn't bear any weight on that side for 2 months, etc. etc).

So I could totally, completely relate to your 5K report. A million congratulations, and YOU ROCK!!!!

Emily

[Tri Girl]

Congratulations!!!!!

I remember my first 5K (and my time was almost exactly the same as yours), and I remember how exciting and powerful I felt! You did it!!! I'm so very proud of you!!!

Now, just imagine in a year or two you'll shave 5, 10, 15 min. of that 5K time... you can do it!!!! And even if you never shave a second off your time, it's all about completing and the joy you feel from the accomplishment!

Congrats!

[tygab]

Congrats to you as well! It is always an accomplishment to do something you were wary of and you see that you can! I am hoping you'll keep us posted on your tri progress - you can do it!

I also can relate to the frustrations with knee injuries/recovery, I am a 2x veteran of ACL surgery (same knee 2 yrs apart) but from Tae Kwon Do. It's now 5.5 years since my last one, and I still think my legs are not equal strength but the biking has helped a lot - both my quad muscles are gaining strength now which is very good for knee stabilization. It may also be why I unclip left instead of right but who knows...