Plate to Plate RR

Short version:
Plate to Plate was awesome again this year. 45:45 A new 5K PR for me!!

Long version:
Plate to Plate was awesome again this year A little back round, last year was kind of a struggle for me. Truth be, told most of my previous races have been a struggle for me, I like to start off to fast burn out and then die for the rest of the run. This year I fell in Feb on my right hip during an early morning run, darn sidewalks. I didn’t run on it for about a month, saw a chiro and it got better, so I thought. Fast forward to about a month and a half ago, and starting to train for my first ½ the stupid thing flared up again. So it was back to the chiro, but this time it didn’t help. So I thought I would try ART (active release therapy) at this point the hip had been painful for about a month, and I was desperate and beginning to think that running was not really for me. I found a wonderful ART practitioner in Berkeley. Things were looking up, I have had one set back and it was Friday before the race this weekend, the hip was back to hurting all the time. I was pretty sure that I was not going to be able to run the 5K on Sunday. The cool thing about Plate to Plate is that you get to run across home plate at AT&T park (it will always be PacBell to me), but you had to be in the stadium before 10am. I was shooting to walk the race and make it in time to cross the plate. I woke up on race morning, to my surprise everything felt pretty good. The hip was much better then it was on Friday. So I dressed to run and off we went, my DH and DS (who ran as well) and my training partner. We got to the parking lot at about 7:30 found our space and went in search of safety pins. We found DH a good place to watch the jumbotron from on the other side of the cove, after using the porta-potties. My training partner fell as we went out for our run on Friday and was not sure if she was going to run, but did so at 9:01 garmin time we were off and running. DS was with us until we got out in front of the ball park, then he was off to run his own race. It was crowded and so the there was a lot of weaving in and out of groups of people that were walking. I lost my training partner pretty early on, she is much faster them me, even with a bum knee and ankle.I was starting to fade but I found a lady that was just ahead of me I was matching her foot steps, so I stayed right behind her. As we moved along I glanced at the garmin, and thought dang I am moving, we were doing 13 and change at this point. I saw DS after he made the turn and was heading to the stadium, he is a fast little son of a gun, he was still looking strong heading in to the 2nd mile, he finished in 37 and change. I am still flowing the “rabbit” that I had found, I would like to take this time to thank her for letting me tail her, and listening to my panting as we ran. We reached the turn around and I found my training partner, she had slowed up some, I lost the “rabbit” at this point, I was hoping to see her again so I could thank her, but I never did. We made it to the stadium at about 9:30 ran on the track to the foul line and then across home plate. This year I hope I am looking up and not at my feet in the pic. Out of the stadium we go and off to the finish line, garmin time has me at 45:45 my fasted 5K time. Not bad for a bum hip and not much running in the past 2 months.