Well, this morning was the Swiss Days 5k, I was looking forward to this, to see where my 5K speed or lack of is at. Last year I ran 17:29, so I was hoping for anything close to that, of course faster would be better. I did a two mile warm-up, and was already sweating pretty good, it was muggy this morning and has been raining ever since the race. 1-5:50 I forget how fast 5k races start and I was left behind most of the younger high school kids. Logan, Dave, Steve all got out pretty good. Mike and I were a little slow at the start, but Mike soon pulled away and caught Steve and ran with him for maybe a mile. I really felt pretty good once I hit the trail and was into the race about 4 minutes. I came through the mile about where I was hoping to and decided to push it a little. I had already caught some of the high school kids that were ahead of me at the start.
2-5:37 I was able to pass some more high school kids on this mile, then caught Steve and Mike. I really felt like this was the best part of my race. I tried to keep pushing the pace, even though I was having some stomach issues. I had a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast and I could really feel it around mile 2. Mike and I helped push each other through this mile. 3-5:33 I was really pleased with my last mile and being able to run this pace and I felt I finished pretty hard. I knew Mike was on my tail, so I just kept pushing. Overall, I was pretty happy with my race 6 seconds faster than last year, which was good.
Logan, Dave and Steve went and did some more miles on the course, but I decided I will wait until this afternoon and maybe avoid the rain, or maybe not. I haven't been feeling the best the last few days and I didn't want to risk getting sick running out in the rain. Speedstar-13 I got out tonight and did another 10 miles pretty easy up to Toquerville City Office and back through La Verkin. My body felt pretty good, still need to work out the hip issue, but maybe the next two weeks of tapering will help. DS Trainer-137.5
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