Notes
Light up the night 5k. 4th place male and 5th overall out of 100+ runners. 3 guys that beat me were very fit looking college guys that ran right around 20 minutes. The girl that beat me ran about a 21:30 or so. Hard to really give it everything I had knowing that there was no one close behind me pushing me at all and only the top 3 were getting any prizes. No official time or anything like that either. Still a fun race and happy with my time.
Also this was a spur of the moment type race that we did as a family right in the middle of 50K training plan. I didn't taper or cut a single workout for it. No speedwork for several months before this race. Overall I was pretty happy with the time from the perspective that if I can knock out a 22:00 5K in the middle of a tough training week with no real speedwork before it then I might be able to break my PR of 21:27 this fall after some dedicated 5K training.