Kirkwood/Webster Turkey Trot 2013

Sam and I got up at 5 this morning to run the Kirkwood/Webster Turkey Trot. This is the 3rd time I have done this race and I wanted to get under 30 mins, even though the fastest I have run before is 30:43 (same race, last year).  It was really cold at the start, around 25 this morning, the coldest I have ever run.  I should have known I had too many clothes on because I wasn't cold at the starting line.  Still, we took our "before" picture in the car because I didn't want to hang on to my phone

I started off really well but ran out of gas around 2 miles.  Then I got too warm so I had to take off my hat and gloves, wish I'd taken a shirt off too!!!!  I ended up walking some of it, but I think that gave me a little extra boost on the last part of the run.  Sam left me behind when I was walking because he was getting cold. I was disappointed that I'd had to walk, but was really happy to see that my time was 30:18, much faster than I thought it was 

I cut 25 seconds off my time last year and really did feel OK the whole time I ran, just ran out of steam for a while.  Not sure if it was because I started out too fast or the hassle of trying to get around all the walkers.  Even so, I just could not feel my legs and felt like I was going to fall over and I had to walk.  I'm still happy with my time and it was better than I thought it would be.  My last 3 runs have been around 33 mins, so a huge improvement