Instead of a Late Night Light Bites post, this week I’m posting a quicky race recap (mostly pics).

On Sunday, (9/8) I ran in the Ithaca 5&10 which is exactly what it sounds like, a 5 and 10 mile race. I ran the 5 mile route in 41:47 (8:22 pace).

My goal was to come in under 45 minutes so I was really excited. It was a very flat course which is a rare gem in Ithaca (so. many. hills.)

This was my longest race to date, I’ve only run two 5ks before and I honestly had such a great experience. It made me really excited for my first ever 1/2 marathon in November.

I was so grateful to have my sister there to drive me, cheer me on, take some pictures and be my brunch buddy post-race.

I was clearly excited to see her as I approached the 3rd mile mark.

The announcer at the finish line was pretty fabulous. His favorite line “leave nothing in the tank.” Thanks Nell for taking this awesome shot (exactly when I finished.) Not quite sure how it happened, but my bib read “Emily Morley” and I was 19… oops! So while I was still 25th out of 93 for women (91st out of 189 overall) I was not actually 3rd in my age group because I’m not really 19. I looked at the results and it looks like I would have been 13th out of 36 in my actual age group.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

This weekend I also started, then wrote about my new CSA share for the semester.