First 5k Ever DONE!

And wow was it hard!!!  I've been working out since June 24th somewhat regularly and since July 8th nearly every day.  My most consistent work outs have been the Jillian Michael's Yoga Meltdown dvd and running/walking/jogging.

I've had some runner injuries over the past two weeks that I really worried about in preparing last week for the 5k.  I had several just 1 milers that I had to push myself through because of the pain in my calf muscles, peroneal muscles, and my ankles.  Most of this pain was concentrated in my left leg.  After going back to my old New Balance 990 and wrapping my ankles most of this pain was nearly gone by race day.  The first half mile of the 5k was brutal.  Shelly didn't think she was going to finish, I thought I may have sprained my right ankle, and I realized trying to run with Susan was a little out of my range.  Susan and I were hoping that we would be able to run together the entire time when I drunkenly registered for the race.  After last week's hiccups, I warned her I didn't think I would be able to do much running and I was right.  I let Susan take off and run the way she wanted to and the way I was just not able to yet.  Shelly was able to catch up to me and our first mile was complete in 16:47 and hearing that and knowing it was the best time that we had done together meant a lot to both of us.  It revamped us and we soon forgot that we had legs.

With less than a mile left to go, we were greeted by Tristan and according to the Nike+ app our speeds soared. It was just the happy pick me up that we needed to make it the last little bit.  It was an awesome feeling finishing the race.

After everything was done, I was sure I was going to go home and just pass out.  However, I truly experienced the runner's high that everyone is always talking about and it was nice.  Instead of sleeping, we were able to go thrift store shopping, take in a Red Birds game with some friends, and watch Evil Dead with a good buddy of ours.

On race day according to the Nike+ app, here are our stats:

3.63 miles
Total Time: 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 24 seconds
Average pace was 17:43/mile
Fastest Pace: 10:58/mile
Slowest: 38:57 (this is when we stopped to do some stretches because everything hurt)
5k time: 54:14 (this is the first even for the app that I had ran)
533 calories burned

The next race is September 13th and it is a 4 miler.  I'm hoping that all of these numbers are lower, well except for calories burned.