I love a little competition!!

The FIRST 5K Run, I ever entered, I placed 3rd in my age group, and brought home a medal.

In the 2nd 5K Run I entered (and ran in a cold rain) I placed 7th, with places 1st-4th, running three times my’speed’.

In the last two 5K events, I placed about middle of the pack of my age group.

I have yet to finish last.

I try to remember that the only real competition I am in, is with the old Fat Ray who drove around parking lots waiting for someone to leave so I could get as close to the Handicap Spots possible.

Now I park far away from those spots and WALK the extra steps.

Having a FitBit Iconic has surely changed the way I look at a lot of things , like ‘step counts’ , Miles I walked this month …. etc

And since that ‘smart watch’ came with a free account with a thing called Strava…. I use that ‘app’, a lot!

It is like a big bragging rights/KUDOS Billboard that most runners check on the hour, or get automatic updates.

One of the other features you get is monthly ‘FREE’ Competitions, or ‘Events’ you can enter, and compete with other runners around the WORLD!

I was sharing my current standings with Betty…

In the July 2018 10K Competion, I am :

Remember, my competition is with the OLD RAY… that Fat Ugly Fellow that had me under control for about 60 years.

Another way to look at it is this ….

My British Accent Speaking, Smart Phone, (Siri) tells me there are appx. 7.28 BILLION people alive in the world at this moment….

… that looks like this….. 7,280,000,000.

The way I see it, of the 7,280,000,000  people who could have entered the race, only, they didn’t enter…

So…. I do and I PLACED.

They didn’t enter, neither placed, so they are ‘behind’ me in the standing.

But, then again, I beat the ‘OLD ME’, and THAT is what matter the most.

Well, ok, the ‘runners’ always say, “… you beat every one still sitting on the sofa!”.

And I DID!

Anyway, In June I competed and finished the 10K

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