Afternoon!  I have 6 and weights tonight.

7.5 hilly rainy miles. And so many snails. I tried hard to avoid them but there were thousands all over the sidewalks. Crunch, crunch....gross.

Also heard sirens for most of my run, including Lifeflight circling for 20 minutes. This is what happens when it does finally rain in SD.

I ran a small local 5K. First OA female, and official time was 21:33, but the course was long (my garmin said 3.20 and the map on here says 3.19.) At the 3.10 mark I was at 20:54, which would be over a 30 second PR for me. I stayed right behind the lead female through 2 miles and then passed her on the last mile. Splits were 6:35,6:35 and 7:00 (last mile was pretty much all uphill and in the wind the last .50 miles). It felt hard, but didn't feel like the usual 5K torture until that last uphill mile.

So does this mean I can adjust the PR? Normally I just leave it when courses are long, but 3.19 is really long for a 5K to me, and damnit I technically broke 21:00. . Even if I just use my overall pace of 6:45 and adjust it for a true 5K it comes out to 20:58.  My PR is 21:38 on a 3.14 measured course, and the overall pace for that was 6:58 per garmin. So obviously I ran faster today. 5 mile cool down. Which was torture.

 

It means you won a race!  IMO none of that other stuff matters!  Congratulations, shorti!!

Thanks  I haven’t won anything since a JV race in HS. It was fun

I ran a small local 5K. First OA female, and official time was 21:33, but the course was long (my garmin said 3.20 and the map on here says 3.19.) At the 3.10 mark I was at 20:54, which would be over a 30 second PR for me. I stayed right behind the lead female through 2 miles and then passed her on the last mile. Splits were 6:35,6:35 and 7:00 (last mile was pretty much all uphill and in the wind the last .50 miles). It felt hard, but didn't feel like the usual 5K torture until that last uphill mile.

 

So does this mean I can adjust the PR? Normally I just leave it when courses are long, but 3.19 is really long for a 5K to me, and damnit I technically broke 21:00. . Even if I just use my overall pace of 6:45 and adjust it for a true 5K it comes out to 20:58.  My PR is 21:38 on a 3.14 measured course, and the overall pace for that was 6:58 per garmin. So obviously I ran faster today. 5 mile cool down. Which was torture.

Congrats!  Sorry about the long course.  I wouldn't count it as a PR as it is not official and like they always say, Garmins are not always accurate. But that's an awesome time either way.

7.5 hilly rainy miles. And so many snails. I tried hard to avoid them but there were thousands all over the sidewalks. Crunch, crunch....gross.

 

Also heard sirens for most of my run, including Lifeflight circling for 20 minutes. This is what happens when it does finally rain in SD.

Bizarro world. It would be squish, squish here. :worms: 

 

Nice effort. I think you can do pretty much whatever you want with it. My first sub-20:00 came on a short course, and the only thing that made it right was to go race again and get it properly.

That’s a bummer. I’m just glad it was long and not short, and I even mapped it out on mapmyrun.com and it came out to 3.24 lol. I should’ve known it would probably be long or short because it was a very low key 5K just put on for a school fundraiser