Grape Stomp 5k

Today I got up at 5:45am & drove to Livermore to participate in the 8th Annual Grape Stomp Half Marathon/10k/5k race.   My goal was to improve my 5k time from my previous timed race.  I have no idea what my time was.  I didn't use my Runkeeper to track the time because I had no signal but once the race results are posted I will let you see if I beat my time.   I was bummed because even though we pre-registered & selected our shirt sizes there were only medium & small left.  Boo!

It was a rough race.  There were hills (oh f*ck! was what I was thinking when I got there) and the race was part on grass & part unpaved rocky road. The course was shared with the runners coming back from their half marathon & 10k so at times the course was a bit jumbled.   My feet started hurting & feeling numb towards the end of the race.  That's never happened before.   I seriously just wanted to walk to my car & not finish.  But I did finish but I don't think I beat my time.  Oh my god those hills!

After the race we walked around a bit and then had brunch.  Had a kick ass Monte Cristo and I don't even regret it.   Since we were in an area where there area a lot of wineries, we stopped at two different ones to wine taste.  I didn't drink because I felt dehydrated so I just kept chugging on some water.  Afterwards we went to Menchie's and had some froyo.  We don't have Menchie's near my house & I've heard about it on Twitter so I wanted to try it.  It was good but I still think Pinkberry has the best froyo. 

I had mentioned to my mom and her friends that I wanted to do a race per month and we decided to sign up for another one in November.  Who knew it could be so addictive?

Edit: My official time was 57:05. My previous race I came in at 55:46.  I'm pretty happy with that time since it was a rough day.