Great job. Congratulations on your hard work paying off with a nice PR.
Nice job on the PR. Quick question. Have you ever tried racing without the headphones? There's a decent amount of evidence that you can race better if you use associative techniques rather than dissociative. Might be worth a shot some time in a small 5K just to see what it's like.
Short term goal: 17:59 5K
Mid term goal: 2:54:59 marathon
Long term goal: To say I've been a runner half my life. (I started running at age 45).
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I have run without headphones before but not lately. I have found that the music picks me up. I usually make it playlist-specific. In this case I felt like I was "locked out of heaven" in mile 4 and then "wang chunged" my way thru mile 5. Self doubt was huge until I got to the 5 mile mark and found I was under 40 minutes.
I'm still basking in the afterglow but I'm already thinking of revising my half PR. And all I remember telling myself after my last half was, "remind yourself to never run a half again!" But we're a short sighted folk and can't remember the pain for our own stupidity!
So we'll see how stupid I feel In a couple weeks here when I decide to sign up or not.
Randy
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Wow, great race! That kind of stress before a race would have just derailed me. My running partner and I were talking today about going too fast. So much of it is just not panicking and realizing that you're going to be okay, even if you're breathing really hard. Your race seems like a perfect example of that. Your first mile was a little fast, but you were smart and adjusted by the right amount, and just dealt with how your body was feeling without giving up. Congratulations on your great training, and on the result it led to.
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Congrats! What a tough start but a great ending!
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Congrats on racing on a foggy cool morning in freaking August!! Did you stay and watch the mile racers?
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I thought they went ahead of us 5k & 10k folks but I could be wrong. They were tearing down tables pretty fast after us 10kers were done but I did see lots of kids with medals.
And, yes, that weather was amazing. I'd been monitoring it all week before but when you're right at the beach like that, temps are usually way stable. I'm just glad they were high 60's stable.
100 degrees today & like 100% humidity! If I ran that same race today, you could tack on an hour to that time!
SIAR........Ya, the worst was that the spare had so little air in it, I didn't know if it was even road worthy. Hindsight makes it look less disastrous but if you asked my wife & kids they'd probably tell you they thought my next move was gonna be something out of Lethal Weapon.