The first 5k

Today was the first race as per the training plan. A 5k run.
I registered with a client and my sister in law for the Movember run. A run in aid of men's diseases.

I've done some before, so the distance wasn't too daunting. However, I had in my head that I wanted to run under 40mins, but at the same time, I knew very well that per my training pace, there was no way I could do it, if I was running at tempo run.

We got there on time to put on our numbers and moustaches. Yes, it was part of Movember.

When my nieces saw me first, they got so scared, they nearly started crying, hence at the end of the race, I straight away took the mo off, and stuck it onto my water bottle.

Off we went at 10am, and as with all the other runners, I did go off way too fast.
Somehow after the 1st km, I started struggling. Knowing that I've ran 2x 2miles only last week, I just couldn't understand why.
So I decided to walk for a minute or so, before running again.

My pacing was the whole way off. Yes, I'm running with a garmin, so should know better, but have no clue yet how to do it.
Just had to walk a few times along the way.

However, I was looking at the time and how much distance was still left, and thought, hmmm, this can be done.

I finished the race under 40mins, in 39:15 as per the official time. 
So you'd say, well done, you did what you wanted to do. 
For me, it's kinda, yes, I did it, but not in the way I wanted to, e.g run the whole way round.

My friend Alison was giving out medals. So she gave some to my nieces as well. They seemed very happy.

Definitely need to work on pacing this month. Looking at my pace and splits, I ran way way too fast, compared to what I did in training by quite a bit.
The next race is end of January, and a 10km, so hopefully by then I will have learned what to do!

Still, job done!