Hopefully you’ve all read my recap of my 3rd 5K for the year. It wasn’t very good, but I learned some things about myself while walking.
I remember last year how incredibly nervous I was to do a 5K by myself. But once I finished it, I realized that it wasn’t too bad.
For the Color Run, I walked with friends, but that wasn’t a competitive 5K, we just wanted to have fun. And for the Hollywood Half 5K, I was by myself and kept my headphones in with some fun upbeat music going the whole time.
I walked with my friend Kate at the 5K this past weekend, and between mile 1 and 2, I turned to my friend and told her how I kind of missed doing a 5K by myself. I like being in my own world and not worrying about others. Fortunately, she completely agreed with me. It seemed to take longer to do this 5K than all the others in the past (could have something to do with the heat too).
So what Kate and I have decided to do is be virtual race buddies. We will try to do as many of the same events as possible, but we will race alone and meet up at the finish line (I’m lucky that I have a friend who doesn’t mind waiting for a slow poke like me). We will try to walk one 5K together each year, but besides that, we both want to go solo.
And if we can’t do the same race (our work schedules don’t totally match up), we will cheer the other person on virtually.
I think this is the best of both worlds. I’ll have a friend to go to the race with me (and celebrate with me after), but during the race I can focus on myself and not worry that I’m making my friend walk so slowly.
I’m glad that I’ve learned this about myself. I think that it will really make a difference in how I feel about doing 5Ks and especially 5Ks where I don’t know anybody else going.
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