ballantyne 10k!

saturday morning kelly, derrick and i ran the ymca ballantyne 10k. i woke up at 5:15am which is never fun. i like to wake up extra early so i can eat breakfast & have coffee & not feel rushed.

 

derrick & i left around 6:30am & headed to ballantyne. we met up with kelly before the race & had plenty of time to watch all the weird things going on around us. people sure are interesting!

 

 

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the course was pretty boring since it was through a corporate park. we did get to run over a bridge at one point which was definitely the highlight. there was a 5k & a 10k, so they turned us around near the finish line & sent us back for a little bit of a longer loop. there was a killer hill that we had to run up twice, and the last time was ROUGH. it was probably right around mile 5.75 so you know you're close, but that didn't make it any better. we all ran the first 3 miles together, and i was with derrick up until around mile 4 but he sped up & i lost him. my mom randomly showed up on the side of the road around mile 3 too which was hilarious. you just never know with her!

 

 

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according to my garmin, i finished in 57:46. the official times showed our time from when the race clock started (so my time was 1:00:11), and it took us several minutes to actually get up to the start line (there were a LOT of people & kids). seems weird they didn't use our chip time, right? i was happy with my time & i kept a pretty consistent pace throughout which is always a goal for me.

 

next up: warrior dash on june 1st and noda brewery 5k on june 7th!