Notes
3 pairs of gloves, heavy wool shirt, running jacket, running vest, wool hat, wool neck gator, underwear, wool tights, sweatpants, heavy wool socks, clunky trainers on the feet. Plus the winter beard! Almost $600 worth of gear!! WTF?
Race started quick and took off with Kara Haas, one of the best masters women racers in New England. I figured she would just run away and kick my ass. I settled in behind her and was happy the pace was just around 6 minutes as it felt much worse than last week. Passed Trish Bourne at about .75 miles and she shouted to Kara to keep me behind her. Nice.
Goal was to just run 6 minute miles so I moved ahead after about 1.25 miles simply chasing the pace. Told Kara I'm just looking to hold it at 6. She came along. She probably thought I was some crazy dude. If so, she likely wasn't half wrong.
Hit the last hill and slipped off the pace but I decided to kick when I got to the top. Had the best 5K kick in quite some time. Chased the clock but didn't get anywhere near the 18:40 I wanted. It was just to cold. I'm going to spend the rest of the day hacking up a lung from that effort.
The pace Bui appears to have headed south and missed his first fudge of this series so I got the win by virtue of showing up, I guess.
Got in the car and checked the temp before leaving. Negative 1.