Hot Cider Hustle 2024

I ran a 5k with my wife today. I used to run back in highschool and while not great at it, I wasn't terrible either. That said its been many years since I have last run one and the ones I did run were mud runs, so the running wasn't the focus of it.

We ran the Hot Cider Hustle today. And all things considered I feel better good after the run. That said I ran pretty slow at 35:27 for the 5k. Definitely slower than I think I ever recorded in highschool but for not having done much running recently not bad. I also had stopped a few times to wait for Kirsten to catch up.

When we first signed up I had intention of trying to train a bit to get into shape for this. But after a few weeks of semi regular running, I fell out of the rhythm and never picked it back up. Definitely feel like if I had kept up at it would have shaved a few minutes off my time.

It also surprised me that I could probably do longer distances for when I was training. Not having run in so long I was typically running a mile or mile and a half at about a 9 minute mile pace; nothing special. But I was pretty wiped out at the end of it. My pace for this one was definitely slower at almost 12 minute miles, but I also wasn't too bad at the end of the race.

Hopefully I can get myself back into running as I would love to be back in shape and able to crank out a few miles if I needed to.