Tanger 5k Run in Lincoln City, OR

Despite my lingering head cold and long week taking care of the family with the flu, we decided to make the trip to Lincoln City to participate in the Tanger Outlet 1st Annual 5k race. Joe, Randy, and James were all supposed to be running as well. In fact, Joe and Randy even had a bet going for $100 to the first one to cross the line. As it turned out neither one of them trained for the race and then Randy went to see his mom in Hawaii and Joe got the flu...needless to say it was just Susan, Andy & Cabella and myself that ran.

The race started in the parking garage at the outlet mall and went up to Devil's Lake State Park, back and through some of the local residential streets in Lincoln City. When the race started it was pouring down rain...this race wins the WETEST race award! The course was kick ass, up hill, down hill, up hill, down hill. The good thing was that it was not cold, just wet. The strong ocean winds actually felt good except that they were usually pushing against us. Andy and their dog Cabella took 10th place out of about 200 people. Way to go! Susan stayed with me through the race to help motivate me. Given that I had not ran in three weeks, was still trying to recover from my nasal congestion, and the challenging course, I think I ran pretty well (about my average). I forgot how good it feels to finish a race, and I was surprised that it actually felt pretty good to run in the pouring rain. Now I am looking forward to getting back to the training program and improving my time on the next race.