On Saturday, I participated in the second leg of the Louisville Triple Crown , the Rodes City Run . The course started at Broadway and 4th Street and ended up behind Louisville Slugger Field.
I ended up walking most of the race like I did in the Anthem 5k. My body just doesn’t want to run. The whole time I was out there my body kept telling me to stop the race. Fortunately, I persevered.
The biggest problem I had at the Anthem 5k was that I had to use the restroom the entire race and was in pain. On Saturday, I got downtown with plenty of time to spare and made sure I found the porta-potties. As soon as the race started, my body started telling me that I had to find a restroom. I knew there was no way that I could make it six miles with having to use the restroom so I ended up running into a Thornton’s on Broadway. I sure felt silly running into Thornton’s but there were already a couple of other people in there.
After three miles, my time was around 44 minutes. It was slightly ahead of my 3-mile time at the Anthem 5k and included my 2-minute run into Thornton’s.
Sadly, almost everyone out there beat me. My final time was 1:32:59 and I finished 5,388 out of 5,958. I only did better than 103 men. The guy that finished first did the entire race in less than 29 minutes. Oh well. I guess I’ll stick with my day job and not enter the professional running circuit.
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