Green Beer 5k Review

Another 5k in the books and I am loving this race distance.

Packet pick up was at Fleet Feet in Old Town and very organized.  Grabbed a few single packs of nutrition ideas I haven't had the chance to try before and was out the door in less than 5 minutes.

The coach had a meal plan for the day before (smoothi for bfast, carb/protien lunch, salmon and sweet potato and ice cream for dinner) which I followed.

I had a 100 calorie bagel thin with cream cheese and bacon bit about an hour before I left the house.  Going to try something else next time as I think that didn't help the mile 2 issue laer in the day.

A 9:00 am start at Soldier Field meant I took an Uber and had 20 ish minutes to stretch and relax before we started.  The weather was clear and bright but cool in the low 40s.

There was a little confusion around waves but I ended up starting close to the front and I think that helped me keep on pace.  Mile one I was under 12 min which was my goal.  After the turn around/half way point I realized how much I really was in the middle of the pack instead of the back and I got super excited!  So excited I sped up so much I got sick... :25 seconds I will never get back!  Darn.
The last half with the sicking and the wind in my face was much rougher and I walked about .75 of a mile.  Which I did not want to do.
However, I finished in 40:55 three minutes faster than January- so I take the win!!
And, earned my first ever race bling!!!  I had my favorite post race meal of hard rootbeer and the best grilled cheese in town a Cheesies :)

Blog Lovin Anyone???

Have you heard about bloglovin???  I am almost never on the cusp on the internet…  I mean NEVER!  If it were up to me we would all still use paper and beautiful calligraphy – ink pot and all!!  But I stumbled on this and thought I would share – forgive me if this is old news to you.

Why you want bloglovin…

It keeps all your blogs in one place, kind of like a twitter feed.  Never miss a post from someone you found through twitter or facebook or a random search again!  It looks a bit like this:

How do you read on this thing??

Just click the title or the words or the picture of the article that looks interesting.  Sometimes you can read the whole post in the next screen, sometimes you have to click after a paragraph to go to the blog.

Post doesn’t look interesting??  Just click the Mark as read and it goes away.

 

You can Save things???

Yeah… this might be my favorite part – see under the number 3 there… You click save and you can make ‘folders’ to save articles that interest you.  Then they don’t clog up your feed, but you can find things again.  Genius!  I wish Twitter had this!

 

But you want to binge read a certain blog cause you just found it and love it???

Under #2 on the right just go directly to the blog site that way.  Read to your heart’s content.  How cool is that!

 

How do you make your own feed?

Search!  Search by topic, area, or person.  Often times a specific blog isn’t in their suggestions, just type the whole blog site name for example… www.craftykhandytris.blogspot.com

Then click the follow option.  Don’t stress over how many people follow it, if it is interesting to you and has recent posts – follow away!