On Saturday, October 5th, I ran the Apple Harvest Run 5K in Santaquin. Did okay. Didn’t quite hit my goal of under 33:00, by about 4 seconds (except the course was short, by 0.05 miles, so more like 44 seconds). I did get my fastest 1K, 1 mile, and 5K (since starting running again).

The course was pretty great, from a cross-country perspective: dirt, gravel, grass, asphalt, gentle hills. If I were to complain about anything, it would be having the finish line be basically all uphill from the mid point of the race, or having a long, continuing uphill on asphalt (I’d rather have a short steep hill).

I took third in my age division, out of three. But, in several other age divisions near mine, I would have come in 3rd or even 2nd, with more than 3. I was 59th out of 177 overall, 28th out of 52 among the males.

Catchup: I also went on a very short 1.6 mile run on the 3rd to break in my new running shoes. Game changing, having shoes that aren’t worn out. I also went for a short, relatively easy run on the 8th, 2.5 miles.