This was a lot of fun. Mel and I took advantage of great babysitting by the grandparents and ran this 10K on Thanksgiving morning. A surprising amount of people were at the Walnut Creek Sports & Fitness Turkey Trot and we had the honor of hearing a few words before the event from Biggest Loser star Bernie Salazar.
I haven't quite reached my current goal of running a 10K in 45 minutes, but I didn't do too bad this time at 47:25. Here are my stats:
10K Overall place: 81 (out of 546 total finishers)
Place by sex: 63
Place in age division: 21
Pace: 7:37
Since this was a Thanksgiving event, and food is the best part of Thanksgiving, followed closely by spending time with family :), I was curious about how my exercise may have facilitated my increased consumption. So, for starters: the "average American will consume about 3,000 calories on Thanksgiving," according to the American Council on Exercise. I burned about 750 calories at the Turkey Trot, and my daily calorie needs, according to the calculator at ehow.com, are around 2990. So, I might have consumed about 3,000, but needed 2990, which means that I was 10 over my limit. But since I ran a 10K that morning and burned about 750 calories maybe I lost a little weight! A pound is equivalent to 3500 calories. Does this mean that I lost about one fifth of a pound for indulging!?
I think it's fair to say that it's not a bad idea to run a Turkey Trot next year.
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