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Fleet Feet Turkey Trot

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Thu, Nov 27, 2008

Race: Fleet Feet Turkey Trot (3.1 Miles) 00:19:02, Place overall: 4

Total Distance

6.47

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.

Comments

From Ericka on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 22:02:12

4th is awesome, so is your time... I hear ya, after you hit 3.3 it's pretty much impossible to pick up ground, it's so frustrating sometimes.

Are you still trying for 60 this week?

From Jeff Loveless on Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 16:48:34

Thanks for the note. I got my 60 miles in this week. I was only able to do it because I had some time off of work. Are you training for anything right now, or just trying to keep going during the winter months?

From Ericka on Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 13:19:07

Yay, you did it! Maybe I should take some time off and try to get in 20... j/k

Nah, I'm not training for anything. I pretty much just do enough so I don't feel like a complete lazy butt, which doesn't take much.

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