Sporting Life 10km, Collapsed Runner and Nipple Tape

Well Race #1 is officially under my belt.  I ran in the Sporting Life 10 km running race down Yonge Street on Sunday.  I had set a goal for myself of beating my previous 10 km personal best time of 53:15, which I believe I set in the same race about 12 years ago.  I fell a bit short of that goal with a time of 55:17.  I was right on track to be done in about 52 minutes at the half way point, but I found that I faded a fair bit around the 7 km mark.  I'm not too unhappy with my finish though, it puts me in the top 25% of all the female runners in that race and gives me some feedback about what I need to work on.  Now back to the training and find another 10 km race later in the season to see if I can improve on that time.  

As an aside, it was the first race ever where I've seen a runner collapsed on the course and being administered first aid.  The poor man was white as a ghost and gasping for air. I'm hoping it was nothing major, perhaps just pushed a bit too hard - kind of disconcerting to see though as you are running past.  And at the end my sympathies went out to another guy who's nipples were so badly chaffed from the run that he had 2 red streaks of blood streaming down his white race shirt - ouch!