Texas State Homecoming 5k

Well today I had my first 5k back in about 4 months of just training, Overall it went really well. I finished with an 18:01 (5:48min/mile) which isn't bad at all considering how incredible the hills here are. I did learn a lesson in my race today though. ALWAYS DOUBLE KNOT YOUR RACING SHOES! At about 2 miles in I noticed my shoe had come untied and I figured that I had a big enough lead to stop and try to tie it.. bad idea. I panicked and couldn't get the shoe tied, the guy in second place behind me made up a lot of ground and I lost all of the momentum I had right before I was about to go up one of the many hills. In the end it proved to be enough that I couldn't catch the guy who passed me. But that's how you learn right? I had a lot of fun, and raised some money for our school's homecoming! Overall I got second place and I won my age group which is always nice. It was a pretty small 5k so they didn't give out medals but I am supposed to get a prize and certificate in the mail so I'll try and post a picture when I get it. After the race I met a guy who had recently graduated from Texas State who was on the cross country team and had some good words of advice for me as far as training goes, he posted some pretty amazing times so I'm sure he knows what he's talking about. Anyways now it's time to start training for my next race which I believe will be on November 9th here in San Marcos. I hope y'all enjoyed the race report and be sure to give me feedback or send me a comment on any questions you have or anything you'd like me to include in the next one. Have a good one y'all!

Results!

Approaching my 2000th Mile

So as it stands today I'm sitting at 1831 total miles since I started two years ago. I remember when I hit my first 1000 it was a really big deal for me and I had a lot of friends come out to do it with me. That wont be possible this year because I'm up at Texas State now, but maybe if I could make my 2000th mile land over Christmas break then some people could make it out and celebrate with me like last year. I'm just really excited to see that I haven't lost whatever it is that makes me enjoy running so much. I thought that after 1000 miles, where would I go from there? But now I truly believe that I wont stop running until my body won't let me go any further. Anyways I just thought that this would be a cool place to share my thoughts with you. I'm going to try to be more active on here and I'm thinking about posting my weekly workouts and total mileage, I think once I get into Ultra Marathons and Iron Man races it will be a cool thing to look back on and see how it was when I had just started and wasn't very good yet. So I hope y'all enjoyed my first post, Thanks for reading!

-Jason-