Turkey Day 8k...well, almost

Spartanburg Running Club puts on an 8k run each Thanksgiving morning. Will and I headed downtown to meet some other folks and go for a run. It's a pretty low key event. The only race entry is a canned good that goes to the local soup kitchen. Scott Wolfe and his boys showed up in some festive holiday hats.

It was butt freakin cold, but we had a good time. I told Will I'd run with him which I did for the first three miles. He was going good for him, averaging about 7:10 for the first 3 miles, but I could tell he was going to fade some more to the end. So, I decided to pick it up. I ran the next 1.5 mi at about 6:35. The course ended up short by a lot. It was 4.5 mi, my time was 31:25 for an average of 6:58/mi. I think I was 14th OA, but I didn't really have any goals other than to have fun.

After the run what else is there to do but visit the local refueling center:

Once home I did a sissy version of a Crossfit workout. 10 pushups, 1 situp, 9 pushups, 2 situps, etc to 1 pushup, 10 situps for time. My time was 5:23 and I was hurting!! I haven't done these in a while!