I ran in the Citizen's Helping Citizen's 5K this morning. I was going to take it as an easy run since I have my high school class reunion tonight, but the competition got the better of me. It was a cooler morning, maybe about 62 degrees. There wasn't much sun. A few of my classmates were running it too. There was also a bride and groom (from my Running Club) who are getting married at 3pm today. She wore a veil and a Bride shirt. He had a Groom shirt. They ran it together and held hands across the finish. It was so cute!

The course wasn't too bad. There were hills but hey, it's Western PA...I am getting used to them. I enjoyed it a lot. It went through campus and to a park, where we did one lap around a 1/2 dirt track and then up a steep hill. After that, it wound down through a park and back into campus. I had a pretty fast start, doing my first mile in a little under 7 minutes. Not sure about my other split because the course was mis-marked. I had 2.2 on my GPS when I hit the 2 mile mark on the course.

So, my (previous) PR was 24:44 and last week, I missed it by THREE FLIPPIN' SECONDS. This week, I beat it by THREE WONDERFUL SECONDS! My time was 24:41!!!! I am thrilled:) I placed second in my age group (30-39), which was a marble desk set with pen.