Heart & Soul 5K in Carrollton, Texas

Hey, it wasn’t on my bucket list, but I did something Saturday that I had never done before--I ran the Heart & Soul 5K race!  This is a race sponsored by the youth group at my church, and is staged to raise money for the various projects that they do each year.

Although I’ve been working our for the last year, I really had not trained for such a run.  Running on the treadmill at the gym is a lot different than pounding the pavement.  However, I did much better than I had expected, running the course in just under 39 minutes, and placing 38th out of 79 who ran with me. 

Shoot, if I had really trained, I might have finished 37th!

I was the oldest (71) who ran, and I won a third place ribbon in my age group...there were only 5 runners in my age group!  James Pickering has invited me to run in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Brain Tumor 5K this fall, so I’d better keep training!
Ron
Photos from the Heart & Soul 5K