Over Memorial Day I ran my very first Bolder Boulder.  In fact it was my very first race of any kind and the first time I’ve ever run 6.2 miles in my life.  I’ve never been much of a runner and while leading up to the race I did do some running to train for it I mostly did cycling for my cardio.

The race was a blast and I was really pleased with how I did.  I had 2 goals for the race, first to finish running the entire way and second to finish under 1 hour.  I hit my first goal just fine with one exception (that hurt my second goal).  At about mile 3 nature called and I had to stop for a bathroom break.  This cost me just over 2 minutes which pushed my time to 1:01:35 – just over an hour.  If only nature hadn’t made me stop I would have hit both of my goals.

I was also rather pleased that, other than my first mile, I got faster every mile of the race (when you take the bathroom stop out of the mix).  My fastest mile was 8:47 and my slowest was a 9:51, not too bad for my first race.  Not sure what I’ll do next but as I did really enjoy it I hope to find another race to do this year.