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9/24/2016

8:00 AM

5 km

16:42

5:23 mi

Health

155 lb
1525
61.4

Weather

70 F

Ratings

7 / 10
5 / 10
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Marion

Notes

5k with Drew, we got to the lead quickly and kept it. First half mile was slightly uphill until we reached the cemetery for a steep downhill and some turns. There were a good climb before the mile as well. My watch had us at 5:19 for the mile, which was slower than my first mile of the 10miler I did. At this point I knew this would be a crappy day for me. Even with the hills, this was slow and I wasn't feeling good.

The 2nd mile was just an annoyingly long straightaway (net uphill) that was even slower. The lead biker cop stopped early to block traffic, telling us to run until 31st street... we were on 12th. This made little sense to me at the time, and I just kept watching the street numbers slowly rise. Nevertheless, the guy that was close to us at the mile was now way behind.

3rd mile was mostly flat with some downhill, so we at least stretched our legs a little bit and negative split. We hadn't really talked about racing each other, and both of us knew the time was slow, so we just ran through the line together. Apparently I got the official win by 1/100th of a second.

I'm thinking I obviously wasn't 100%, let's just hope all I need is more recovery.

*Swamp Fox

Comments

RedCholo

That's pretty short turn-around from the 10 mile. When's your next big race?

Nutmeg

Another 10 mile next weekend.