Notes
Seattle Valentine's Day Dash
Finally have a 5k time in the books! Felt pretty awesome! My goal was to get under 19 minutes, which I wasn't sure if I could actually do (stringing together training repeats), and I did it! I definitely held back some, there is room for improvement, but I am pretty pleased this wasn't as miserable and disappointing as some of those XC races! Planned to run with Zosia, or at least not run in front of her, but she took off in the beginning, and then stayed the same gap (10 seconds?) ahead for the rest of the race until the end when I closed it to 2 seconds, but couldn't catch her, which wasn't disappointing at all, I was so pleased. We both slowed some the last mile, but not unreasonably slow. I did pass some people in the final stretch which was fun. Now I want to run more 5ks!
I wore my XC spikes with blanks! Not a problem except they make a blister on the right heel.
Toffer was planning to run, he was excited because he got the bib number 666, but was too sick to run this day :(