Cox Medical Mile

OMG! After much convincing from Dustin, I signed up to run the Cox Medical Mile race this past Saturday. I am NOT a sprinter so after much groaning, and assurance from others that there will be other "slow" runners competing (thanks for the encouragement Cathy!) I decided, why not???? It will be a good warm up for the 5K race that follows the 1 mile race. When the race began, I was feeling pretty good so I decided to run harder than I planned. 3/4 of a mile into the race I realized that my legs were feeling good and I was in 4th place! I sprinted the last bit and ended up taking 3rd (women's heat) with a 6:20 mile!!! Yes, a 6:20 mile...I was stoked! Granted, much of it was downhill, but I haven't ran that fast in a while. When the morning was over, I had taken 3rd overall and 1st in my age category for the mile and 2nd in my age category for the 5K. I'm not normally very proud of my running, but this day was so fun I just had to blog it! Yee haw!
~Aimee