Next Sunday, I’m running the Susan G Komen 5K Race for the Cure.  The last time I did a 5K race (non-obstacle, non-Exodus) was back in 2006 with a bunch of college friends.  A couple of them did the half marathon and the rest of us just did the 5K.  At that time, I had said I would never do a 5K again.  Why?  Well, because I hate running.  Funny thing is that I’ve been working out and running in the past few months and well, hard to believe, but I don’t actually hate running.  I think I ran almost 3 miles today.  Maybe 2.75 or a little less.  I feel like running 1 mile is actually much easier now.  I still remember a few months ago I couldn’t even make it to MOL’s house which is about 1 mile away.  But I felt like when I ran it at Breen, it was pretty easy.  So, as referenced by my previous post about the 2006 5K, my time was 31:56.  This time I aim to run it under 30 minutes.  That’s actually going to be tough.  I’m going to have to run at roughly a 9:40 pace.  There’s going to be so many people and so many walkers.  And I have to run faster.  I think right now I’m still running slightly over 10 minutes a mile.  Anyway, it’s about 1 week away, so to prepare some more, we’re going to go run 5K on Sunday.  Crazy, this running business.  :)  At least I feel somewhat fitter than I used to.  =P