run a 5K in under 30 minutes

Surf City Run, Huntington Beach … 0:29:56! LOL ... it was a flat out/back thru downtown HB. Thing was, there were SO MANY people out there (a couple of days ago, I looked at the roster of pre-registrants and we numbered nearly 900, and god knows how many registered on race day). My friend and I had to spend the first mile making up for the super-slow start, there were that many people. I could barely breathe at the end of mile 2 and had to slow down to catch my breath. My friend said there were way too many for the relatively narrow road we were on. He also said that because of all the zig-zagging we had to do to get around the walkers and slow runners, it slowed us down by … crap I forget, I wanna say at least 1.5 minutes. So I’m definitely on track for a decent time in my upcoming duathlon. But one thing I’ll be working on is my lung capacity. My future training will involve running shorter distances at faster paces. Ugh! LOL

I’m doing the Surf City Run on my birthday. This will be a benchmark for the upcoming Solana Beach Duathlon. I’ve been training faithfully for the past several weeks. The current goal is to build up my conditioning and endurance, so I need to be patient. I ran for 5 miles nonstop today, and I had to remember to congratulate myself for doing that, instead of sighing over the slow pace. At least I went running before it started getting too hot!