LifeStyles 5K
This was my first 5K race by myself, and my pace suffered just a bit. Now, I don’t think being alone was what affected my pace. I gotta tell you. I hadn’t really planned on doing the race, so I stepped up my training just a touch this week. Not really in the total miles run, but in the pace I was going after on shorter runs. I was trying to keep my pace under 9 minutes, where my 5K split has been (at its best) are 9:30.
Anyway, to the race … I was sore (calf) on race day and the weather (it was rainy) affected my knee (old injury). But I was there, and determined to make the best of it. I found a group that was running about my usual pace and tried to keep them in sight. I gotta tell you, I nearly stopped to walk twice. But I just kept saying, “If you stop, you won’t break 30. If you stop, you won’t break 30.” Well, I didn’t break 30, but I didn’t stop either. My pain paid off, in a medal, actually. I came in second in my age group (Males, 20-29). Had I run my PR, the age group winner would have been in sight. But I just wasn’t able to run that fast today. Gotta say, though, wicked cool to get my first medal!
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 10/25/2008
- Time: 08:00:00
- Total Time: 00:31:36.00
- Distance: 3.1 miles
- Average Pace: 10:11.21/mile
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