I ran and completed the Brooklyn Bridge 5k yesterday without any walk breaks. That was one of my goals for the summer/running goals and I'm very glad I completed it before going back to school. :) I would have updated about it yesterday but I was super tired and just not in the mood for anything. The run was at 8:30 in the morning and I finished in 42 minutes. Not my usual 5k time or pace but I was still satisfied when taking into account how much uphill running the bridge consisted of. I knew that I should have scoped out the bridge before race day but whatev. Lol. Those uphills were all super killer. The bridge and the few was gorgeous. It was also amazing that I had NYPD officers and random bikers cheering me on. My favorite was this woman who was cheering me on at the end. She was super excited for me because I was an overweight girl who was doing the race. :) I placed somewhere like 643 out of 740. I had nearly 100 people behind me?! I don't care that there was 600+ people ahead of me. THERE WERE 100 BEHIND ME. It's good to know that I'm not last or close to last. Plus they stopped clocking in people I think a couple minutes after the hour. So there were probably more. I'm super excited. :) I hope next year to squash this race as well as do a Queens Half Marathon and be super thin by then.

I just really need to work on my emotional well-being. I have been incredibly depressed these past couple of months and I can't seem to shake the feeling at all. Running and racing and finishing make me feel great.. I love the post-run bliss but it only last so long. I wish that feeling would last all day. Towards the end of the days I find myself falling into really deep depressions and having to stay awake at night thinking and trying to sleep or thinking about him and crying myself to sleep. I really wish I was over him already. It would really make dealing with all the symptoms of my depression a lot easier. I'm starting to think that I won't ever have a life without my depression -- that it is a part of me that I will always have to live with. Blerg. Well.. this isn't the blog for feelings like this so I don't really want to focus on it right now.

I'm looking into races that are being held up by school but I'm having a hard time finding any that I close enough for me to get to without a lot of transportation. I might consider the one in Saratoga if I could find out how close the bus station is the to race site.. Hm. Maybe Jake might know. I'm also looking into races that are taking place when I'm home for turkey break and there are quite a few so I'm really looking forward to training for those and further improving myself and my running. :)