I didn't plan on running this but saw it advertised yesterday and thought I would make a decision when I woke up today. It was a nice morning and the family was sleeping in so decided to give it a go. I was in a wedding last night so was on my feet alot plus didn't get to sleep until late so thought of this more like a workout. It was a really small race (maybe 50 runners). There some some young HS runners who went out hard and a few others that followed them. I was in about 10th place the first mile but then started to pick off people as they slowed. First mile was 6:20. Started felling better the 2nd mile and moved up into 4th where I stayed the rest of the way. 2nd mile was 6:15. Was feeling the effort on the 3rd mile and as we were coming back one of the volunteer's sent us the wrong way so ended up making the course about a 1/4 mile short. Held my pace pretty good to the finish. The 3rd mile avg pace was 6:18. So avg for the distance ran was 6:17. I figure I could have easily avg 6:19 for the 5k so that would have been a 19:37. I was hoping to break 20 so was disappointed that I didn't get to run the whole distance to see. Still it was a good workout and gives me something to gauge my fitness off of. Would like to do a couple more 5k this summer just to see how my fitness is progressing and work on my speed. Would like to get down under 19:00 by the fall. | 