Hershey 10k Conquered!

I could not believe that a couple weeks before the race I somehow pulled my groin muscle on my left leg. I am not sure if I did not stretch it enough or I overused it, I do not know but it hurt. I was not doing much running in the last two weeks. I was still debating if I should/should not do it afraid to hurt it even more. I decided to at least give it a try and if I felt I could not, just wait for Renee at the finish line.

On the morning of the race I got super excited! I had to get up at 5am and drive to Cocoa Diner for carb breakfast. We got to the start and I was surprised to see how few people were there comparing to Hershey Half. It was kind of chilly but we had long sleeves while some people were wearing shorts and t-shirts. Brr!

We started stretching and got to the sun area. After 30 minutes we felt like we were warm and stretched enough. :) We could not wait to start! We were somewhere in a middle of a now big crowd and all this excitement from the people around us... I could practically smell it!

We took off and here we went... I went for 2.4 miles with no stopping and then I had to start power walking for a minute till we could get a drink (and I NEEDED it!).

We went from Hershey park Stadium, towards Giant Center, then right onto Hersheypark Dr towards Outlets, then got into Hershey park where Sidewinder and Storm runner are and running past 10 out of 11 roller coasters.

On the pictures you can see the number of miles we did that we were showing with our hands.
We were still cold but fresh.. About 7am

Mile 2, Hersheypark Dr

 Mile 3, heading to Hersheypark

 Mile 4, Fahrenheit is on my right

 Awful photo :) Mile 5

 Proud campers (aka runners), finish line behind us

Renee, who has been too busy with workl and nursing school did not train at all and ran for the whole time. I trained (but have strained muscle) and I ran about 98% of time. We were talking and making jokes for the whole way and did not even got out of breath!

When we got to the end where we saw finish line, I yelled to her so we pick up speed and we rushed to the finished line.
Total 1.15:30, pace 12:30. I cut 27 sec of my mile since Hershey Half.
What I do not understand is how in the world I went to work after Half?? I must have been completely out of my mind!
Jimmy brought the kids about 5 minutes after I finished, was so happy they were all there :)
SO PROUD OF US!