Decided to run the local 5k here in American Fork. I haven't run a race in about 3 months and I was interested to see how my increased training would help my racing. Did a warm up of a little over 2 miles and a cool down with a little over a mile. The race went good. There was probably about 200 people who ran. Mile 1-6:00 Mile 2-6:09
Mile 3-6:19 .10 - 0:34 There was a group of about 10 that started pretty fast. After about .75 miles I was running in 4th place with the leader of the race pulling away from everybody and the 2nd place guy pulling a bit away from the 3rd place guy and myself. I pretty much stayed in 4th for the whole race long. I just couldn't catch the 3rd place guy, although I could tell he was pretty worried. I felt pretty good, but I think I could have run 20-30 seconds faster if I had not run so many miles this week. All the training seems to be paying off, as this was a PR in the 5K by almost 2 minutes. Part of me wishes I would have tried to stay up with the 2nd place guy for as long as I could because it is so hard to make up ground in these 5k races once I get into miles 2 and 3. 3.
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