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| Before the starting gun...will we be fast? |
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| She beat the turkey! |
I love starting my Thanksgiving day with the Mesa Turkey Trot. I started running this in 2007 and have done it every year since. Karen and I went up together and had a fun morning. At the start we discussed the fact that neither of us felt super motivated to be fast, plus we were both fast last year so we weren't sure if we could get faster. The horn finally sounded and Karen said goodbye! About 46 minutes later she crossed the finish line with a new personal record! Yay for Karen, she even "beat the Turkey" for bragging rights. Go Karen!
I started out feeling a little sluggish, with 'heavy' legs so I thought I would just settle in to a decent pace and take whatever time I got. However, when I looked at my watch at the mile mark I realized I was actually running at a decent clip. I was warmed up now and felt good so I sped up a bit. The next few miles flew by. By mile 5 I realized I was going to beat last years time so I thought I might as well try to crush it and I pushed hard for the last few minutes. I came in at 56:07, which was about a 9:05 pace. I'm pretty happy with that! Karen and I enjoyed chatting with a few friends we saw after the race and eating the delicious oranges but we pretty quickly headed home. We earned a diet coke stop for sure and it tasted delicious! I'm glad we were able to burn some calories this morning to sort of help with the calorie surplus I created this afternoon.
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| The nice man cut off my head! |
