Fred you are racing another 5k since the weekend ?

They are easy to recover from.

Yeah....

Tonight's is as much for fun/atmosphere as anything else.

Fred - nice RR.

Everyone - nice weeks.

My last posted week.

Week was fairly good.  X-Country race went OK given the conditions and my recent training, although I faded fairly bad the last km.  The 8km was a legit 8km, maybe even 8.1km looking at people's Strava.  Hash ran it very well.

Weekly for period: From: 06/06/2022 To 12/06/2022

Total distance: 62.63km

Watson nice job on the xcountry. As Hash said you nailed the weather handicap factor.

That guy had a pacer for the mile who took him out in the first lap in 64 secs which was stupid but luckily he hung on but had a vomit afterwards.

Do any of you watch Nick Bare on YouTube?

He's another huge muscley guy who can run a comfortable sub 5 mile and sub 3 marathon, actually sub 2.50 on the last one I think.

Of course my favorite youtuber is Flavio Pezzini 

Mark - Thanks, and yeah it was unfortunate about the water.

Watson - Thank you.  Sorry you faded at the end of the race.  That's never a fun thing.

Flavio - You have a point about the 5k races and training.  I have a couple more short races in early July but then I settle into half marathon training for races in October/November.

I have some very mixed feelings about yesterday's race.  Last time I ran it was 5 years ago and the weather conditions were similar, though I think yesterday was a bit less humid.  My previous time on the course was 25:55, so that was my goal last night.  I ran a 24:58, easily beating my goal.  My son ran a 23:55, hitting his biggest margin of victory over me (after beating my by only 25 seconds on Sunday), but well off his PR - he finally admitted it's harder to run fast in hot weather.  My running partner was 2nd in our AG of males 50-59 and I was 5th (of 30).  We only compete in AG placing when the race uses 10-year bands for age groups.  There was good crowd support and the course was well marked.

The course is mostly flat.  My first mile went well.  The one hill is about at the halfway point, so my second mile was the slowest.  On my third mile I started to feel cramping in my back, between my shoulders - I've never had that before.  (Later that night, getting up off the couch, that same area seized up a bit, almost like lower back spasms, and it's still a bit sore today.)  I fought through the back cramps and kept running hard, but I was hot and it showed.  After the race I felt off - not lightheaded, but more of a brain fog type of slow.  I struggled to cool off, but was OK after a half hour or so.

Now of the part that has me less enthusiastic about doing this again.  The results show me finishing 49 of 443, but 352nd place was the last runner with a time posted, so I think the 443 is number of people registered and I was actually 49 of 352.  Although the race gave out age group awards, the online results give no additional information with regard to AG placing, gender placing, or age grading - what's with that?  Five years ago, there was a starting mat, but not last night; it was gun time only.  There were three water stations, but poorly staffed - the first had one person and the second had little kids who weren't exactly good at giving out the cups.  Finally, they put the water bottles on a table in the sun a couple hours before the race, so when I finished the race feeling quite warm, I got a bottle of sun-heated water that was warmer than the air temperature - OK for rehydrating but not for cooling.  I'm struggling to get past these negatives.  Maybe time will dull the memories.

Flavio exciting on the coach and the upcoming 1500.

Fred I wouldn't worry too much about it. 5ks are fairly casual events usually. I have never run a 5k only event here with any water except at the finish.

Many events nowadays are run by non runners and are often for fundraising.

Went for my first HM run of the new training cycle.  6 miles with 3 at HM pace.  After two 5k races in the past 4 days, I didn't expect to be close to my eventual goal pace for training, but the effort was there.  It was nice to get back out with my running partner for our usual Thursday morning runs.  As a bonus, we both got home about 10 minutes before a thunderstorm rolled through.

Fred - I raced in very hot weather earlier this year and it also took me nearly half an hour to go back to normal. I was in a not-dizzy but not normal state, very uncomfortable.

The best part of your reports is that you're running together with your son, that is so cool!

 

 

Thanks, it is pretty cool.  I'm trying to treasure it as much as I can while it lasts.  Good to know I'm not the only one to have that not-dizzy-but-not-normal experience post-race on a hot day.