Giant’s 5k 2015 Race Report

A little over a week after SeaWheeze I was pinning on a bib for the Giant’s 5k. This race was definitely not in my original summer racing plans, but a bunch of my coworkers signed up and I couldn’t say no.

Despite tired legs and sick lungs, I still had a great time (well… not according the race clock, but I had fun). The course is beautiful! It follows a route I used to run when I worked at Yoga Journal in the city.

Thanks Ashley and Peter for the photo!

I ran nine minutes off my PR… and I didn’t really care. I knew going into it that this was a social event, not an all out race. Which isn’t to say that I probably pushed it further than I should have given the state of my body on race day, but I don’t regret the pace I tried to keep.

Also, three miles is a nice distance. The pain is over so much faster than 13.1. Too bad you still feel like you are going to throw up after.

(I couldn’t resist sporting my new bling. Until it got glitter all over me, then we were done.)

My favorite part of the race was finishing on the baseball field at AT&T park. I’m not a baseball fan. This was not a religious experience for me, but it was fun to have a different perspective on the stadium (you know, not way up in the bleachers behind the drunk people). It must be terrifying to be one of a handful of people on the field with tens of thousands of people looking at you. Good thing I dodged that bullet.