Thankful Turkey 5K 2011

Posted on November 19th, 2011 by Middalia

Today my family and I ran the Thankful Turkey 5K in San Marcos. We did this race last year and it was so much fun. I was really looking forward to a small, low key race after last week’s disappointment in San Antonio.

My main goal for the race was have a good time with my family…but I also hoped to improve my time over last year and win a turkey. Early in the race I latched on to a fellow runner and we just paced each other, each of us taking turns at leading, silently motivating each other to run a good race. He was able to out sprint me to the finish but I was thankful to have someone to help me push the pace. I finished the race in 23:07 (20 seconds faster than last year) but the race course is a little long and has a lot of turns so that time is a little deceptive. According to my Garmin I ran 3.23 miles which is much longer than I usually run for a 5K, so my pace today was faster than my pace for the BooRun, which I am happy about.

After I was done I went back to finish the race with my daughter who was running on her own because my husband was pacing my son who ran another 28:XX 5K which is an awesome time for him. My daughter was struggling a bit today (allergies and she had to stop to tie her shoe) so I kept kept back tracking on the race course till I found her. I helped her finish strong and happy.

This race is not chiptimed…they do all the timing old school so it takes a while to get the results, so I wasn’t sure if I won my AG. They distracted us by giving out the door prizes which they asked my son to draw and announce the numbers for (which he loved doing).