Notes
Yough River Trail 10k in Connellsville, PA.
Race was entirely out and back on the yough river trail, aka the great allegheny passage. Had some dejavu moments from my bike trip last summer.
There was a 5k, 10k ,10 mile, and half marathon going on simulatenously, but luckily the field sizes were really pretty small so the traffic wasn't too bad.
Time: 35:44, place 1st
Splits (from garmin, since the mile markers on the course were kind of all over the place):
5:35-5:42-5:43-5:48-5:52-5:59-65
First 5k- 17:35, second 5k- 18:09
So kind of ugly positive splits but aside from the first 400 I was completely alone and had the win in the bag the entire second half. Felt pretty good in the first half, but really struggled to keep a strong rhythm the last 2 miles. I'm hoping some competition would've provide the motivation needed to keep the pace in the 5:40s. Didn't feel too beat up afterwards, so that's a good sign.
Mcmillan converts this to 59:43 for 10 miles and 28:32 for 5 miles, so definitely improving over the 28:43 5-miler 2 weeks ago, but still have a lot of work to do to hit my goal of 58:12 for 10 miles at broadstreet.