My first 5K!

I'm really behind! Ok, here's the run report from last Saturday.

The night before I made a very pitiful attempt at getting a good night's sleep. I had started getting a headcold on Thurs., we were sleeping on a blow up mattress and we had a very fitful 3 year old sleeping between us. It was a LONG night. I got up at one point, figuring it HAD to be 6 already...... it was 3:30. Not good. I finally heard S up and about and got up at 6. We were out the door by about 6:45 and I was feeling ok.I hadn't been very good with water all week so I drank a bottle on the way there and another once we got to the start line. I peed 3 times before the race started. The 1/2 milers got started and then I spent about 10 minutes walking around and stretching before they lined us up. Although I had done a TON of walking the last 2 weeks, I had only run once in the last 3 weeks and that was 10 days ago and I did 6R/3W intervals. I started strong and though I had no watch and just my iPod shuffle, I paced myself with songs, running 2 and walking 1. In my second run interval my cold gave me a big F-U and I had to cut back some. I was coughing up all sorts of yuck but I hung in there pretty well. Keep in mind 99% of my runs have taken place on the treadmill so all the rocks were a challenge for me. I'm not very graceful anyway so I had to be extra careful. The water was very pretty but I couldn't look anywhere but a few feet in front of me or I would have fallen or twisted something for sure.I got to the 1 water stop we got and all they were offering was gatoraide. I never ever drink that but I took some and that was a bad idea. It gave me a horrible belly ache that just churned every time I ran. Anyway, I did pretty even run/walk intervals the second half. I nearly spit on somebody passing me because my music was loud and I didn't here them coming up. I got near the end and picked up my pace to as close as this big butt gets to a sprint for crossing the finish line. Being the big dork that I am, I was so glad I had my glasses on because I was totally tearing up. My time was 44:01, not quite as fast as I would have liked, but given my chest and congestion, pretty darned good. Most importantly, I didn't finish last. That is ALL that I cared about.