AM - 16 Green Springs/Dirt Mile. By the time I went to bed last night, I had decided to run a race Monday night. So I skipped this morning's workout and just went for a run. Then I ran 5xDirt Miles with the boys - they aren't going too hard yet, so it wasn't too big a deal for any of us. (Barefoot '13 80.5)(Kinvara3 434) afternoon - just weights at practice since I'll get some mileage tonight. Chelsi's Run. 15:58 PM - 9 Bloomington Hills. Warmed up for about 4.5 miles. It was still pretty warm (around 95) but not as hot as last time I ran this race in '10. I really didn't want to put to many expectations on this race, but I did look back at the last time I raced it. That time I ran a 15:42 and won. I wasn't sure I could do that this year, but I thought a sub 16:00 would be good and to pull/push a couple of my top guys to that as well. The race is a 2 looper around a neighborhood. A very gentle grade down one way and the same up the other way. 1-5:06, started off with Abel and Byron (my two top guys) and Nephi from Hurricane. We were moving good down the hill and when we turned to go up the other side, I kind of took the lead to push the group. It was the fastest any of them had run in a 5K before, so I figured I better keep pushing them or they would sit back. 2-5:16, moving into the second lap, we pulled away from Nephi. I hoped we could drop him and started to think we had. I encouraged Byron to stay with us and relax his breathing. Tis was a solid mile, but I let us relax a little too much. 3-5:26, Byron fell back just a little and I moved up on Abel to take the lead so he would keep digging. I could tell we were headed for a good time, but I was getting tired a bit now. As Abel recovered and moved in front of me, I had kind of a weird thought. Not that I could have beaten him Ayway, but I thought to myself for just a minute, "I don't want to be the guy kicking to beat a high school kid. I'll just let him go." Then I kind of snapped out of it, but it was too late and he put 5 seconds on me. But finished up strong at 5:00 pace and was pleased to break 16:00. Then went and cooled with all the guys who raced for another lap. (Landreth blue 974.65)(Rocket 2 35) | 