Go! St. Louis Spring 2023

 

I ran the 5K in Forest Park and did pretty well.  It was so windy and pretty cold (mostly because the wind was biting!!!!).  I came 4 out of 20 in my age group.  I had signed up for the 10K, but then found it was down town and there's no way I'm fighting traffic and parking to ever run down town again.

Snowball Series 2023 #4 5M Frontier Park

 

I hurt my back a couple of weeks ago and I hadn't run for over a week, so the Frontier Park run was harder than what I've been used to recently.  Still, my time was pretty good and I came 8th in my gender/age group.  I also came 8th out of 32 in the series, so I am very happy with that.

Snowball Series 2023 #3 7K Creve Coeur

 

Weather was great and my run was fine.  I ran the whole way last year, but wasn't able to this year.  Still, my pace was only 1 second slower!!!  I also noticed there's almost twice as many runners this year than last year.  I guess COVID really is over!!!!

Frostbit Series 2022-23 #4 4 miles

 Not bad timing.  Some hills, but not as bad as Kirkwood last week!!!!!  I was in the middle of the pack for age/gender, which is pretty good since it's the St Louis Track that sponsors these runs.  Weather was perfect for running too.

Snowball Series 2023 #2 Kirkwood 4 miles

 

I did pretty well here, came 9th in my gender/age group.  I had to walk and run because the hills on this one are horrible!!!!  It was pretty cold, 20 degrees and it took me about a mile to warm up.  I had a pain in my right leg later in the day, but completely gone the next day

Frostbite series 2022-23 #3 5K

 

Good grief, what a disaster.  I think I left my brain at home for this race.  My only excuse was that I did not get an email about today's run.  I missed the start of the race (it was at a different place than I thought) and started running the long run.  After 3 miles, I realized that there was no denying it, we were nowhere near the visitor's center!!!!  I gave up after this and just walked back.  So, race #3 also has no official timing.  Never mind, I still did it

Snowball series 2023 #1 Forest Park 5K

 

Good pace this morning.  It was absolutely perfect weather for the first run of the series.  I had to walk up the hills, but I'm impressed with my age and gender place.  I always run faster than I think I'm doing when I'm in an organized race.  Good start to 2023, now off to do a 3 hour yoga workshop!!!!