Jeremiah and Lester 1st 5k.

Another race completed today! This was the resolution run in Auburn, Ca.

Both Tabitha and I had signed up for this race in hopes of someone joining us. I wasn't sure who my Plus 1 would be for the race, but I would sweet talk someone into it. She signed up her 5 year old son for his first 5k and he did GREAT!


A couple of weeks before the race, My boyfriend, Lester mentioned that he would do it with me. I was shocked. He has watched me hike nearly every single weekend in 2011 and he even came to one of my races to take pictures.

The reason he signed up for this race is because it was a trail run. I had no idea that this run would be so brutal though. These trails are the ones I run nearly ever weekend, but this was a trail I had not seen before. I'm still trying to figure out how we went down 1 mile but came back up 2!

On Saturday before the race we had gone on a 5 mile hike and I was trying to get some time in on my Vibram's 5 finger shoes. I woke up this morning and I knew I was in horrible trouble because both of my calves were unbelievably sore. A quick stop at Sport's Authority to get another compression sleeve should do the trick.
Now, I am convinced that if this was a normal 5k I would have done okay and not injured myself, but the first mile was straight down hill and the next two alternated between severe uphill, mild uphill or minimal level.

By the time I got to the uphill I could tell there was something horribly wrong and I told Lester to run ahead because he said uphill was easier for him. I struggled up the first few hills and then this doozy of a hill came up and I sprinted up it. The hope of a flat area was my reward. As soon as I hit the flat area it felt like I had just got beamed with an orange on the back of my leg. An orange that had just come out the microwave. "OH SWEET JESUS!"
I had to power walk the majority of the way back up the canyon.

As I came up out into the parking lot, I saw Lester coming for me, He had already finished, "Give me your camelbak. You wanna run in?"
"I made wrong choices, I made wrong choices...ohhhh get me to the aid station!" He ran with me to the finish line and when I came out of the chute he gave me the biggest hug.

Now I am laid up on a heating pad.

Happy 2012 everyone!! It's going to be a great one!!