Got up this morning and drove to Morristown to run the P.O.G. 8K Race. Actually ran into the real Jim Flowers who I follow on fastrunning. Pretty cool. Had a pretty decent warmup of 2.5 miles. Temp not too bad for August, about 74 and humid. For the race, went out exactly how I wanted to, at 5:40. Then the side stitch that's been bothering me the latter part of this week kicked in and made my breathing really shallow, and I was pretty much done from there. At that point I was in 4th overall but quickly fell to 5th. Ended up with 30:24. A little disgusted but then reconsidered all the mileage I've piled on the past few weeks. Got first in my age group and got a gift certificate to The Runners Forum in Carmel, which I put toward a new pair of Saucony Fastwitch Endurance after the race. Did roughly 3.5 mile cooldown w/ Jim. Then later this evening after watching the world's first day, took the new shoes out for a pretty decent run up through Howard subdivision and back in 21:44. First mile in 7:14, last mile in 6:06. Stomach was still bothering me a little... Splits from race! 1 5:40 2 11:43 (6:03) 3 18:04 (6:21) 4 24:30 (6:26) "Really?" F 30:24 (5:54) Need to hammer it out for the next 10 days and prep for the ISU race on the 29th.
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