A new PR?

If you can call it that.  My slowest 5k on record, hooray...  Only by a few minutes and had 1k of walking so I was probably doing pretty well overall.  I think the hill at the beginning of my run killed me.  And that was more mental than anything.  Long and short of it, the run makes me think I can hold on to my E Corral number for the Peachtree and at least get close to the time standard for the group.  I'm only off by 5 or 6 minutes and that's without the adrenaline of an actual race.  Plus the first 3 miles are downhill, so I might be able to roller coaster up Cardiac Hill and finish on the run.  More likely I'll just walk that half mile to a mile and try to run the rest.  Problem with that is that I've discovered once I start walking, I tend to want to walk again soon thereafter.  I really hope I can just push through the hill and run the whole thing, but I don't foresee that being an option.

It's been awhile

I'm finally exercising regularly again.  In fact, thanks to a 100 Day Challenge, I'm on 7 straight days of exercise, including 5.6 miles yesterday.  I haven't run a full 5k since I got going again a couple weeks back, but I'm getting closer.  I actually plan to do a full 3 tomorrow, though since I'm trying to do a route that has a pretty significant incline in the first mile, I may allow myself to do intervals.  Problem with either option is the 10K on July 4.  If I put off the 5k, then I'm not going to be able to do it later in the week without risking too much stress on the body before that long of a run.  If I do it and put too much stress on the body, then I may slack the rest of the week and not be ready next Monday and I'd screw up my 100 day.

Either way, being back in the saddle is nice.  I'm even planning to ride my bike on Wednesday, which I haven't done in years.