Women's Fitness Festival 5k

I ended up not going out last night, which was a great idea, because 6am came very early. Got up had a healthy (but light) breakfast of a banana and an english muffin with almond butter and hopped in the car to head to the capital to do some running... in the rain :(

Women's Fitness Festival

When I got there everything was all set up and looking good, but it was still raining. The booths that were set up were ok, a booth for Luna bars, the half marathon I want to do, California Family Fitness Gym, a shoe insole guy, a boxing studio and some other random ones. The Nike booth was smaller than I thought it would be, and nothing was on sale :( But that's ok. Kaiser had a booth in which they measured you % body fat. Mine was 43.8% and it said I had 102 lbs of fat mass. The acceptable % fat for women that they recommend is 31%, so I've got a ways to go. My body bugg calculates that my body fat percentage is 37.9%. It's good to have another calculation for reference.

Me before second 5k

When the race was about to start it stopped raining! I took off my zippy and ran in just the t-shirt. Mile one went well, hit it at about 14 min. We ran right by my apartment which I thought was funny. Mile 2 came about 15 minutes later, but around 2.5 miles I had a coughing fit, and decided to slow it down a bit. I walked for a bit. I had loaded 60 minutes of songs into a playlist to run to. I found out when 46 minutes (my last race time) would be and what song would be playing so I would know how I was doing. When that song came on I could see the mile 3 marker, and knew I wasn't going to beat my time, but that was fine with me seeing how sick I was last week. I sped up a bit and passed the 3 mile marker and could see the finish line. I ran it all the way out through the finish at 48:40 (UPDATE: official time 48:28). Only two minutes slower than my last time. I am very pleased with that time having been sick. I will definitely try to better my time next race, and I hope I can do it 100% healthy. Over all a very good day/race.

I think I might nap for a bit today. 6am mornings are rough.

I am excited/nervous to weigh in legitimately tomorrow morning before heading off to the gym! Hope that it's good news. :)