Yay! Congrats on your race and your time, and also coming in 2nd in your age group! That's awesome.

I pr'd in today's fast and flat 5K. (The Narragansett Super 5K) It was not chipped. By my watch it was a 7:57 minute mile but by their gun and clock it was 24:59 or 8:03ish which is still a PR for me. I spend most 5Ks thinking, why. Why why why. Whywwhywhywhy do I even bother racing? I get all these negative thoughts. Thoughts like, "oh, just walk why don't chya. This running stuff is hard. You don't really want to be doing this. Look at all these people. They're crazy! You can just walk. No one will know." I HATE that. Really. This doesn't happen to me when I'm just out there doing a training run. Just during 5Ks and at the very end of halfs. So yeah. Anyhow, in the raffle, I won a gift certificate for a personal trainer. I am going to ask them, how do I get the fricken little voice outa my head???

But it all ended well because I got my !freaking! PR after all. My DH cut 3 minutes off of his last year's time and PR'd with 6:38 mm. We were running with very fast people -the top guy was 15 minutes over the line - top girl was 18. Most in my age group (Master's) ahead of me were in the 20-21 minute range. I was 17th of 37 in my age group.

I would say... my biggest problem was with the breathing, and second to that, with my stomach feeling queasy. The stomach thing was likely mostly nerves. I'm actually not so much a fan of running with people. Isn't that weird? Like, running with a bunch of people around me makes me a little claustrophobic and irate. Probably because I don't generally run with anyone except my husband, who is kind of a crank socially. Of course, AFTER the race in this big ballroom sitting around a round table eating really good pasta I had NO problem chitchatting with everyone left and right. Do any of you know what I mean or am I just PMSing? I'm probably PMSing. LOL.