So today I ran my first 5k race since High School 11th grade. Because, and I haven’t mentioned this yet, I started up another Biggest Loser competition at work again. This one is gonna be for 8 weeks though.. I really don’t think I am gonna win this time but this is beside the point. Because I have started this competition and it was gonna be for 8 weeks, I needed something to help keep me motivated for the first couple weeks. I decided to take up running and work toward a race. It was the Brooksie Way Half Marathon & 5K Run/Walk. I of course ran the 5k. Now, back in high school, my personal best was 18:52. My average was in the mid 19’s. My worst was 25:40 something. That was in Algonac, through the woods, after it rained for several days. We were running in knee deep muddy watter in that race. With that being said, I gave myself a modest goal. Get under 30 min. I had already been having pretty intense workouts for the last 3 weeks and have been running for 2 weeks.

Well the race today was where it all came together.

I’m happy with this..

Laura ran the race with me and she got a great time as well at 25:21. It was nice for Jackie because for the first time she was allowed to be a spectator of a race as opposed to being in it.

As for the biggest loser competition. I am down 10lbs to 171. Yes I gained back a lot of my previous weight. But I am back down to where I was and now I have another 5 weeks to go in this. We’ll see where it ends up