{"id":280,"date":"2013-02-26T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/beginners\/?p=280"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:29:21","slug":"my-first-5km-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/beginners\/projects\/dizzy-daisy\/my-first-5km-race","title":{"rendered":"My first 5km race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Welcome to my; me Dizzy Daisy’s report back. You can follow me as I dazzle the world with my style and excellence with some exercise thrown in to simply exalt . And do remember, we don’t sweat, we glow. We are just exquisite.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was DizzyDaisy\u2019s first 5km run where she participated in a race and by all accounts she did splendidly well \u2013 TheEd<\/em><\/p>\n

Well you know, I had visions of me wearing gorgeous pink running shoes to my first event and moi, blossoming in all the glory of competing.<\/p>\n

In truth, I thought I would have been nervous, I was n’t nervous I was positively choking. I was so concerned about my attire and whether my ample derri\u00e8re would show in the wonderful lycra tights I had decided to flourish forth in.<\/p>\n

I wanted to run near a pond, because as you know I ‘loov’ water. I got myself signed up for an event in Hyde Park, and everything simply started going boom, tarra, boom with my little blood pumper.<\/p>\n

I was seriously so excited to be running this distance in an event and there were just so many others around, I don’t know who was more privileged, me or them, them for having me there or for me having them there. I felt a touch Mary Poppinish, wanting to float off into the air at a whim.<\/p>\n

Exciting alright. I got there early and stretched my fettle, I had paid attention to detail and did all the necessary before arriving, there was no way I was going to embarrass myself queuing for those blue porta thingies, no way.<\/p>\n

There were plenty, and I mean plenty of other likewise lasses out for the run. To have so many other ‘combatants’ was both exciting and stimulating.<\/p>\n

I was ready, I had listened to the advice regarding my pre-race preparation and eating, and had arrived ‘ready to rumble’. I had hydrated sufficiently up to an hour before the race and had been warned that pre-race nerves would lead to the feeling of needing to use the loo, so had gone extensively before arriving at the event.<\/p>\n

OK, I admit it, I still needed to go to the porta loo before the race, though I knew this was expected \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

All part of the wonderful exciting world of my first event, NOT \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I had avoided standing too close to the front but was soon to learn that many of the ‘slower’ runners had gone and stood in front, I shall learn from this. I had to dodge and weave so much to pass the very much slower runners than myself, and I am not quick, hitting top speed in my waddle is never going to break any land speed records however I was pleased to note that I continued to overtake others on my sojourn.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, I had secretly set myself the time of 7 minutes per kilometer and was very very satisfied to have finished with a time of 34.53. I do believe TheEd would have given me a large hug had he been around to see marvellous ‘moi’ after the 5km.<\/p>\n

There were times during the run where thirst certainly did get the better of me and unfortunately there were no water-points along the route, though I suppose it was over just as I needed to relieve my thirst the most.<\/p>\n

Still, I do believe there should be a water-point as there were a lot of others behind me, yes, there were plenty of flaggingly thirsty joggers and walkers after my 35 minutes.<\/p>\n

I was most happy after my run and I had achieved running my first 5km and in a time I was very happy with.<\/p>\n

I may just enjoy this running lark after-all<\/p>\n

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