Hippie Dash 5k
A most encouraging morning. Signed up at last minute, temperatures not looking great but early enough to not be hot and sunny. Pretty good warm up, just over a mile easy running, then about 4 strides. When I went to do the strides I was running a faster pace than I can usually do during such a warm up.
At the start line, not sure the exact course route. Slight uphill from the start area, turn right and run about a mile with a small loop turn around, run back south a mile then about a half mile more south before turning around then right turn down the finish chute.
Happy with splits: 6:47, 6:54, 6:55, then 6:02 pace for the last bit.
In the last mile, caught up to first place female, but then she just passed me during the homestretch.
Eke'd out a small improvement over the Strawberry Classic 5K which itself was an improvement.
Now, two times in a row getting all three miles under 7:00 pace. Got a little lazy in the third mile when it looked like I'd have no problem holding the pace, maybe could've gotten down to mile 1 split with better focus.
Fun morning in Safety Harbor, they had a nice collection of vintage and modern VWs (bugs and buses and some rare models). One free beer per runner also and some decent food.
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