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[dherblay]

I ran in my first 5K today. I expected, based on past treadmill performances, to finish in thirty to thirty-two minutes, so I surprised myself by finishing at 26:30 -- and it is a tribute to the strength of my slight tendency towards Asperger's that even as exhausted as I was, I sprinted the last fifteen or twenty feet before the finish line so I

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[atpo_onm]

Hey, for $5,000 even I'd give it a shot.

Oh, wait-- that 5 kilometers...

Never mind.

(Congrats, BTW! ;-)

[dherblay]

Thank you!

[nzraya]

I did the math and concluded (from the couch) that you beat me by a full 30 seconds. Motherfucker.

(Of course, I'm a girl, so my natural weakness more than outweight the fact that I don't smoke much and have been running since college....)

All of which is to say, congrats!

[dherblay]

Racing against others is very motivating, at least for the the first mile, and I discovered I was pacing myself faster than I had expected to. During the third mile, on the other hand, racing against others can be quite disspiriting; I kept watching these old people pass me. But that first mile -- I was shocked and disbelieving to reach the mile marker a whole two minutes before I had expected.

[dr_ryan_adama]

Congratulations!

[dherblay]

Thank you!