Race Day! Heart and Sole 5k
It was a beautiful day for a race. Near perfect weather conditions for this time of year! Just about no wind, in the low to mid 20's. No complaints from this girl.
My buddies and I did a 1.5 or so mile warm-up and ran part of the course.
The race got underway on time at 8:30 AM. 250 racers (114 females).
I took off trying to keep my eye on a few key people in front of me. As I have mentioned before, I am not a good pacer. Nope. Not me. The first mile was around 6:54--oooops!! I felt pretty good actually. I am sure I could not have kept up this pace for the rest of the race. There were 3 hills today. They were all varying heights too. One had a sneaky gradual incline that I did not care for either.
So I started to really feel the pain about half way into it. That kind of pain that makes you think crazy thoughts (walk please) and you just have to push them out of your head. Or you will regret it later. I kept telling myself-- "It's only 3.1 miles" it worked I guess. I never stopped. My finishing time ended up being 22:55. What the WHAT? I felt so much stronger then that time! My lungs were on fire, as were my quads. I know the hills slowed me down, but COME ON?!?! Do not get me wrong. 22:55 is a great, great time for me. I just felt faster that that today.
Sooooo.....that brings us to the title of this blog. Yea. Soooo the race was really 3.2 miles in length and not the standard 3.1 as a 5k is supposed to be!! IF I had the correct Garmin I would have known that sooner than later. I talked to at least 5 peeps that do have one though. Their Garmin's all registered 3.2 miles for the race. If we want to get all technical and stuff (and I do). My time would have been closer to 22:15 or so. It is very annoying to pay for a race and then get craptastic results. I mean, when/how did they measure the distance for this race?? I don't understand. No skin off my back. I am not sure I could have gone much faster today.
My celebratory IHOP Harvest Grain N' Nut pancakes made it all better!
The Lowdown:
Chip Time: 22:55
Overall place: 57/250
Gender Place: 13/114
Division place: 2/27* woohoo!
Total Pace: 7:24
My next 5k will hopefully be in March. After searching the web to locate my PR for my 5k's through the years, I found that it was 21:26. 2002 baby! WOW that was a long time ago. I remember the race well too. I was the overall female winner! I was 24 years old and the the girl I beat was 19. Her grandpa came up after the race and hugged me and told me I really made her work! Funny, the stuff we remember. I probably remember it becuase it hurt. I would love to say that I would like to get a PR this March in the 5k...but, well, that time was kind of fast. LOL!
Here is a run down off all of my chip times from past races. Thanks to Caitlin (check her out-she is training for Boston) for sharing this site!
4 comments:
Nice pace and great run! I can't believe the course was 3.2 miles, though; that's pretty hilarious. Thanks for sharing. =)
Thanks!! The really bad part is that this same race committee put on a 5k that was actually 2.8 miles in length in Jan. Come on people...get it right already!! :)
Girl you had an amazing run! That's pretty lame that the course wasn't really a 5k. You'd think they would have double checked that!
Thanks Kristen!
Yea..that's a pretty important thing to mess up!! Crazy!!
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