Nice! But how was running the Olympic course? You left out all the details.

And pics ffs.

10k in 41:55 for PR!

That’s according to my watch. I can’t find results posted online. 

So I have no idea of placing, but I think there may be a good chance I won my AG. Good size crowd for 5k, but once past the cutoff, it thinned way out. Weather was good 52 degrees, and it was raining earlier but let up in time for the race. Kind of windy, but not too awful. Course was a path around a lake, one loop for 5k & 2 loops for 10k. So naturally the second loop required a lot of dodging slower 5k runners. As well as everyone else, as this is a heavily used path by walkers, joggers, stroller-pushers, dog-walkers, etc. Anyway, pretty happy with how it went, other than sort of tanking mile 5.

MTA: of course the worst part of the whole thing was the fact that I had to make a least a medium-long run out of the day, so basically ran a 5.6 mile cooldown after the race. That was pretty rough.

10k in 41:55 for PR!

 

That’s according to my watch. I can’t find results posted online. 

So I have no idea of placing, but I think there may be a good chance I won my AG. Good size crowd for 5k, but once past the cutoff, it thinned way out. Weather was good 52 degrees, and it was raining earlier but let up in time for the race. Kind of windy, but not too awful. Course was a path around a lake, one loop for 5k & 2 loops for 10k. So naturally the second loop required a lot of dodging slower 5k runners. As well as everyone else, as this is a heavily used path by walkers, joggers, stroller-pushers, dog-walkers, etc. Anyway, pretty happy with how it went, other than sort of tanking mile 5.

 

MTA: of course the worst part of the whole thing was the fact that I had to make a least a medium-long run out of the day, so basically ran a 5.6 mile cooldown after the race. That was pretty rough.

I guess now I REALLY need to be able to race a 10K next week, huh?! Congrats!!

 

Nice.  For me, sometimes running slower than what I am used to for a long time can be very tiring, and if I try to run faster at the end, I can't.

I don't think I could have run fast at the end either. It's like that pace settled in my body, and that was it.

As for slower running, I just couldn't either until a few months ago when I started to run my commutes slower. I have no idea why. So today's pace wasn't so much slower than my commute pace.

 

Nice! But how was running the Olympic course? You left out all the details.

It was pretty cool, but no PoP, no water station, no crowd support, course was not marked

I'll give a little more details in a bit. Ever since I got back I've been doing stuff (family stuff like groceries, washing the clothes, ...)

As for pics LRB, man I hate posting pics here. So complicated. Ever since they closed down tinypic, I'm struggling. I'll make a little effort

10k in 41:55 for PR!

 

That’s according to my watch. I can’t find results posted online. 

So I have no idea of placing, but I think there may be a good chance I won my AG. Good size crowd for 5k, but once past the cutoff, it thinned way out. Weather was good 52 degrees, and it was raining earlier but let up in time for the race. Kind of windy, but not too awful. Course was a path around a lake, one loop for 5k & 2 loops for 10k. So naturally the second loop required a lot of dodging slower 5k runners. As well as everyone else, as this is a heavily used path by walkers, joggers, stroller-pushers, dog-walkers, etc. Anyway, pretty happy with how it went, other than sort of tanking mile 5.

 

MTA: of course the worst part of the whole thing was the fact that I had to make a least a medium-long run out of the day, so basically ran a 5.6 mile cooldown after the race. That was pretty rough.

Great race, Dave!

Three miracles! I made it there and back without getting into an accident, I didn't freeze to death, and I managed to run faster than marathon pace. Barely, but I did.

 

Except that for some reason, the official results have my chip time as two minutes faster than my gun time, when the differential was really more like two seconds. So I'm listed ahead of the first place female, who probably actually did run 1:31:20, since I supposedly ran 1:30:49 with a chip time of 1:32:49.  (My big award for winning my AG is a dinky medal. YIPPEE! The race medal is cool, though. It has blinking lights!)

I'll echo what others have said about you being on fire lately!

 

Didn’t realized that happened, but long ago I switched from tinypic to imgur, which I found much more user-friendly and has a mobile app.

I can never remember that name. But thanks, I'll use that.