5k or 10k?

I’m planning on signing up for a Thanksgiving road race and I have the option of doing either a 5k or a 10k. I’ve never raced a 10k before, so it’d be nice to get the “automatic PR” but I’m also not in great racing shape currently, so 5k seems safer.

Thoughts?

I need a race to do in the sort-of-near future.

This is the first autumn in 6 years that I’m not running on a cross country team.

It’s depressing.

I was just looking through photos from my college team’s last race and I’m itching to compete. And also struggling to hold back tears.

I need a race.

New Balance Indoor Grand Prix

Holy crap. Why am I just finding out now that Jenny Simpson, Sara Hall, Anna Pierce, Maggie Vessey, Shannon Rowbury, Mo Farah, and Galen Rupp will all be in Boston tomorrow competing at Reggie? Argh. Tickets are all sold out. Anyone want to casually run around Reggie with me from roughly 6pm-8pm just on the off chance one of them chooses to warm up outside? That’s not weird, right?

“You need to look back, not just at the people who are running behind you but especially at those who don’t run and never will. Those who run but don’t race. Those who started training for a race but didn’t carry through. Those who got to the starting line but didn’t get to the finish line. Those who once raced better than you but no longer run at all. You’re still here. Take pride in wherever you finish. Look at all the people you’ve outlasted.”

-Joe Henderson