Hello everyone!!, its been a while since I blogged, but here I am. This blog is about the 5K race that happened on my hometown.

First of all let me start by saying that this is the first race that I have participated in my hometown, so it was kind of special for me to do this race. The other thing that marked this race was the fact that on saturday night I had a wedding of one of my best friends, so I ended getting to bed at 3:30 am and waking up at 7:00 am for the race. Plus, the scotch’s that I drank made it more difficult for me to get up from bed.

Anyhow, I made it, I woke up and headed for the race. By the way, on the pictures you will see that my hair (well, the little hair that I have left) is kind of weird, but it is for the fact that I barely made it for the race. Over there, I met my dad, also, this was the first race that I have raced with my dad, so that made if more special!!

I was kind of impressed with the organization. I did not expected much from the race considering that there are very few races here in my city. The thing I did not liked was the fact that the organizers did not had a special shirt for everyone in the race. So everyone ended up running on the shirt that they liked the most. Personally, I prefer the look of everyone wearing the same shirt, but anyway, lets continue.

I have only two pictures. My wife did not go to the event, so she was not there to take pictures. Sorry about that, but she also went to the wedding, so it was going to be hard for her to wake up!!. I took a picture of my city while I was driving, it is not the best picture, but what the heck. So here it is:

So the race started around 8:00 am. It was only 5k, so I was not expecting the race to be hard. But  was wrong. I do not know what in the world happened, but this race proved to be the hardest race I have ran!!!. Maybe it was the fact that the organizers mentioned that there were going to be shirts only for the first 1000 runners to cross the finish line (even though we were only 750), so that put some extra stress on me and I started running faster, maybe was that there was some humidity on the weather, or maybe just the fact that I had only slept 4 hours and I had a couple of drinks the night before. I do not know what was it, but it was pretty hard.

I made a PR, I ended up making a time of 28:12. On my 10k’s my time for the first 5km was around 30 min, so this is not bad at all!!!.

At the end, I met several people from my city that were runners and that I had no idea they liked the sport. Some of them even went to races in Berlin, so it seems like there are a lot of people in the area interested in the sports. I guess it is only a matter of getting everyone together to start organizing more races.

I feel very good for being able to somehow support the sport that I love in my city. And also, I really liked the fact that there are more people here that like the sport. So that gives me some hope that we can get more races going here. I am thinking of organizing a running club, but I am not sure how difficult that can be or what is the interesting part of having a running club.

I also appeared on the local newspaper. Here is the picture. I swear to you that Idid not did this on purpose. It was pure luck!!!

Also, I want to thank everyone that reads this blog. We have achieved the 1,000 views!!. That is amazing, I have never expected to reach that amount of views in so little time, and also, I have seen that the comments have been increasing on the lasts posts. So I really appreciate you guys reading my blog. I hope you enjoy it and get motivation from it just like I get motivated by reading your blogs. Thank you!

I am expecting on doing some changes to the design of the blog to “celebrate” the 1,000 views. So far, I have changed a little bit the picture at the front page. I am thinking on adding links to other blogs I read and adding some youtube videos from the songs I have recorded.

Let me know what else should be a good idea to add to the blog.

Anyhow, thank you so much for reading this!!!. I have some other news to post, but I will do it later on the week.

Thanks!!