pumpkin pie 5k

When I talked to Bonnie last night, she said "there's no blog post on our adventure today." Duh. I was a little busy cooking Thanksgiving dinner, and picking up college students and trying to entertain. (Both the cooking and entertaining genes skipped me. I'm horrible at both.) Thank goodness my sister-in-law was invited. She bailed me out, and the food was not ruined. Just really late.

The Pumpkin Pie 5K is held in Nazareth and sponsored by the Y. Bonnie is no longer registering ahead of time, because she often can't go. We left early so she could sign up. This year we parked on Main Street, about five blocks away. Much better than last year. They have a 5K run and a 1.5K walk. We crashed the run.

I forgot my camera, so Bonnie took pixs of the people in costume on her phone. There was Indians and turkeys and pilgrims, and other silly outfits and hats. How they could run in some of them is beyond me.

It's a hilly course, big hills, little hills. I do poorly on hills, and the techniques I learned at the workshop don't work on hills. At the split, where walkers turned right and runners went straight thru, there was almost a traffic incident. The silly cop/volunteer thought everybody was turning! Many of us went straight. He had restarted traffic. Thank goodness he quickly saw the errors of his ways.

Right from the start Bonnie blew past me. Then I caught up on a downhill, and lost her again, caught up and lost her ... At one point, as we were going around the high school she walked backwards and I still couldn't catch her. Then she went into her finish line sprint and finished a good minute ahead of me.

Because of the timing chips, my clock time of 51:02 was adjusted to 50:38.2. It took nearly 25 seconds to cross the start line. I place 20th of 20 in my age group. What a surprise. However, I was 835th place over all out of 840 registrants. Five people finished after me!

I don't understand with all the walking I do, and reasonable good health, I don't get better at this. If Bonnie had time to train, she'd finish 10 minutes ahead. It must be focus.

Tomorrow is the Turkey Trot. Lydia and I will be doing that. Bonnie has a wedding tomorrow.  It benefits Historic Bethlehem.

Last year, I did four events in four days. This year I'm only doing two—The Pumpkin Pie and the Turkey Trot. I haven't heard anything about The Run For Joan. It was poorly attended, so maybe they aren't doing it. The other is the Hershey volkssport event. It's actually five different events ranging from 5K to 42K. But both Bonnie and Lyd have to work, and I don't want to drive all the way to Hershey to walk alone.

This morning I signed up for the Committment Day 5K on New Years Day in Philly. People in 30 cities "are making a commitment to live a healthy lifestyle" on January 1, 2013. When I first discovered it, I "liked" the page on Facebook. Today they posted a black Friday promo code which cut the entry fee in half. Hey Megs, there's one in Cinnci.


Yesterday, at dinner, I blew my sugar fast. I ate both fruit tart, and a scone with clotted cream that Belle made. Today, I'm back on track.