This race was held at the Titusville,Fl Christian Academy so their was a tons of cc kids. I decided to run this race last night and its only a mile from the house which was nice! Pretty cold this morning 48 degrees almost perfect running weather. Race started at 8am I lined up in the front with all the kids, and we took off pretty fast. I tried to hold back a little bit on the first mile but it didn't happen.
Mile 1 - 6:22- After the first few quarters I looked ahead and noticed I was running about somewhere top 20 but it seemed like I was at the breaking line. All the fast people pulling away and I was the fast, slow person. Well I noticed a few people slowing down and I figured I had a shot at passing them. I ended up passing about 3 people, 2 that went out to fast and the other one who was cramping on the side of the road (he was ok).
Mile 2 - 6:37- Slowed down this mile, 2 kids were way in front of me, I didn't think I had a chance to catch them. I heard foot steps coming up right behind me, and I knew someone was about to pass me. I look to my left and it was the first place female about to pass me and she pulled ahead of me by a few steps. I tried to push and run beside her but she just kept pulling away from me, so I just stayed behind her for a little bit. I started thinking to myself, either out run her, or fall off....I told myself I will not let her out run me! A few seconds later I made another attempt to pass her but everytime I tried she would push and pull ahead. I decided to wait another 1/4 mile and try again, I attempted again but she push ahead again. By this time we was pulling ahead of the 2 kids that I didn't think I would catch. About 2.6 miles I made the attempt to pass the 1st place female again, I had her this time, and I never looked back.
Mile 3 - 6:22 - I was hurting pretty bad...,Really bad and I was scared to look back so I didn't and decided this would be my last push. It took everything I had to push the last few feet. They called out 19:18 at mile 3 so I figured I had a chance for under 20 mins! I came around the last corner and seen 19:45 on the clock and went into a dead sprint. I kept pushing and cross the finish line just under 20 mins and started to wonder what the official results would say.
Official Results 3.1 19:56!!!! First time under 20 mins and I believed I PR by 18 secs. I'm really happy with my results and I believe I will be knocking on 19:30's door pretty soon. I finished 13th overall and 1st in a/g.
Congrats on the sub-20 and the new PR!
I thought you were near Pensacola. You're in Titusville? Did you see the Space Coast Marathon medals? Registration is open and it would be nice to FE, just saying....
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Awesome splits, speed and effort! Congratulations on your new PR and your AG award! Reading how you ran your race was exciting, thanks for sharing!
PRs: Boston Marathon, 3:27, April 15th 2013
Cornwall Half-Marathon, 1:35, April 27th 2013
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Wow!! Congrats!
PRs: 5K- 28:16 (5/5/13) 10K- 1:00:13 (10/27/13) 4M- 41:43 (9/7/13) 15K- 1:34:25 (8/17/13) 10M- 1:56:30 (4/6/14) HM- 2:20:16 (4/13/14) Full- 5:55:33 (11/1/15)
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You're a fast guy! Congratulations on the sub-20, amazing achievement.
Smoking fast, congrats on the PR and AG win.
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Great job!!
Mile 5:49 - 5K 19:58 - 10K 43:06 - HM 1:36:54
Great job!!!
Congrats on the sub-20 and the new PR! I thought you were near Pensacola. You're in Titusville? Did you see the Space Coast Marathon medals? Registration is open and it would be nice to FE, just saying....
Damaris, I am from pensacola, the Navy moves me around a little bit. I only have till May here after that I am heading back to a boat in kingsland ga, just right above jacksonville fl. I am not sure if I will be on dry land during december but I will update you if I'm here. Ga is only a 3 hour drive. I do it almost every weekend to work on my house right now. I was actually looking for a marathon around april let me know if you know of anything. Trying to get a marathon in before I get back to a boat because my training will suffer greatly.....
Everyone else- Thanks everyone, I appreciate the comments.
OMG! What a freaking run!!!!!!!! Congratulations on going sub-20:00 - that is huge, huge, huge, HUGE!!!!! You killed it!
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Congrats! That is a great new PR!
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You know there is nothing down here in April. But I'll see what I can find.
Damaris, I am from pensacola, the Navy moves me around a little bit. I only have till May here after that I am heading back to a boat in kingsland ga, just right above jacksonville fl. I am not sure if I will be on dry land during december but I will update you if I'm here. Ga is only a 3 hour drive. I do it almost every weekend to work on my house right now. I was actually looking for a marathon around april let me know if you know of anything. Trying to get a marathon in before I get back to a boat because my training will suffer greatly..... Everyone else- Thanks everyone, I appreciate the comments.
Wowzers!!! Awesome race! Congrats!
Wow, awesome. Congrats on your shiny new sub-20 pr!
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Fantastic job! That first sub-20 is super sweet. You did a great job latching on to the first girl and pulling yourself along with her. To pass her up again was even better. Nice work not looking back too - eyes on the prize.
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