It's been a long time since I have written on this blog so let's get back to it with a small post.

EA Sports Riverside Dash 5k

I last ran a 5k in mid-November of last year and did so so. Actually, I was in pain for much of the run but I finished it. I then get sick and didn't return to running until February. I registered for the EA Sports Riverside Dash 5k. This past Sunday in the very early morning I trekked up to Sanford and joined the throng of people milling around prior to the race. Now the Riverside Dash has both a 5k and 15k race but I'm not even quite up to the task of the 5k yet so the 15k is right out.

I did alright in this race and finished with a time of 38:46.8. My tracking put this run at 3.17 miles and although the time isn't my personal best I did complete the race and felt good about it. Here is the bling.

IOA Corporate 5k

For my second race this week I did the IOA Corporate 5k. I have done this race 4 times so far and back in 2012 it was the first 5k I had ever participated in. Looking at my previous times I have improved nicely over the last three years but I'm still unable to jog a mile straight. Well, it rained quite a bit and there were approximately 18,000 people crowding the streets so I'm using that as the excuse for why I was slower on a Thursday evening than I was on the previous Sunday morning. There was no official timing but my self timing put me at 39:17. Here is the IBM runners.

Here is where I started in the racer's starting queue.

And here's the swag.