April 19th, 2009 Gilda's Run

Today I ran the Gilda's run 5k. It was an overcast day with a little bit of rain but was an overall nice day to run. I wasn't sure how I would run today because I was training pretty hard up to this race and have been doing more half marathon pace workouts for my half marathon on may 10th. I ran my first mile in 5:30 and just stayed with a group of 5 other guys. I hit mile 2 in 10:55 which was faster than the first mile and decided to go for it. I ended up running about the same pace a little faster to hold off the competition to place first overall in 16:55. I wanted to run faster and actually thought I would but its cool, it was more for training for the half again on may 10th. Hope everyone enjoyed the first post on the blog. Again please donate to www.firstgiving.com/paulnottoli for my marathon on behalf of the NPCO. I will also be the runner of the month for May on www.NPCO.org