For the past few weeks I've been training for the Chiang Mai Mini Marathon (aka 10K) and I'm proud to say that I finally completed my first official 10k! Until now, I've only run a 10k on my own, but never officially with recorded time. Running this race gave me the opportunity to meet new people and travel to another amazing city in Thailand, Chiang Mai.
The race started at 5:00 in the morning, so my coworker and were out of Hotel by 4:30 am. Registration had taken place the previous day and included a ATK- Covid Test, so we already had everything we needed. There were people of all ages participating in the event.
The participants were scheduled in waves by our age grouping, eldest first. My coworker was in Phase 1 and I was in phase 4. I'm relatively young, but I'm not the fastest runner so many of the people in my group looked more fit and much younger. I waited in line with my group for my portion of the race to start.
Once the race started, I kept a relatively slow pace until mile three. At that point, I felt a sudden burst of energy and was able to increase my pace. I cranked my music up and ran the 10k in 1 hour and 4 minutes.
I was greeted by traditional Thai drums at the finish line.
I also was able to make a few new friends who wanted to take pictures with me of course.
For some reasons the race organizers added this random old school car outside the race event. I had to snap a few pictures
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