{"id":456,"date":"2026-10-06T04:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2026-10-06T04:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:52:16","slug":"i-won-the-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/i-won-the-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"I Won the 5K"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 5K is officially over, and I won. My official chip time was 23:33.95<\/strong>, which comes out to a 7:36 per mile pace<\/strong>. I finished 42nd out of 1,189 people<\/strong>. Trevor finished in 31:45.10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I expected to beat Trevor. What I did not expect was to run a 23:33. This was my first 5K, so I didn’t really know what to expect once the race started. I’ve obviously run more than three miles before, especially when I was younger, but I’ve never actually run a 5K race or trained specifically for one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also barely trained for this. I originally had about three months to get ready, but I kept putting it off. By the time I finally started taking it seriously, the race was only about a month away. I trained for the first week, overdid it and got hurt. I basically lost the next week recovering, then trained for another two weeks before getting sick right before the race. So out of the three months I originally had to prepare, I probably got about three weeks of actual training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My goal was to break 24 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the race got closer, sub-24 became the time I was really pushing for. I thought I could do it, but I knew it was going to be tough. Then I got sick right before the race, which made me even less sure of what I was going to be able to do. At that point there wasn’t much else I could do besides rest, try to recover and show up on race day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was surprised when I saw 23:33. I knew I was capable of running a decent time, but I didn’t think I would run that fast, especially while sick. I didn’t just barely get under 24 minutes either. I beat my goal by more than 26 seconds and somehow finished 42nd out of 1,189 people in my first 5K. I’m pretty damn happy with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there’s Trevor.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This entire thing started because I made a comment at work that I thought I could beat him in a 5K. I wasn’t even being that serious when I said it. I was basically thinking out loud, but apparently Trevor was offended that I thought I could beat him. He challenged me to sign up for the next 5K unless I was too scared, and obviously I wasn’t going to let that go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After weeks of trash talking, we finally got to race. I ran a 23:33. Trevor ran a 31:45. That’s more than an eight-minute difference. Needless to say, I’ve been trolling him ever since, and I plan on trolling him for a while. After all the shit talking leading up to this race, there was absolutely no chance I was going to win and then quietly move on with my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The time is probably the biggest surprise for me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beating Trevor was the original reason I signed up, and obviously that’s been fun, but I expected to beat him. The 23:33 is what I wasn’t expecting. At the beginning of September, I wasn’t in 5K shape at all. I had barely focused on fitness this year because most of my attention was going toward work, business, real estate and everything else I had going on. This race gave me a reason to finally start taking my fitness seriously again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In about a month I lost a good amount of weight, started running again, got hurt, recovered, trained some more, got sick and then somehow ran a 23:33 in my first 5K. Now I’m curious what I could run if I actually gave myself enough time to train for one properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 5K is officially over, and I won. My official chip time was 23:33.95, which comes out to a 7:36 per mile pace. I finished 42nd out of 1,189 people. Trevor finished in 31:45.10. I expected to beat Trevor. What I did not expect was to run a 23:33. This was my first 5K, so I didn’t really know … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milliondollardiary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}