Today was an amazing day for distance running in our Nation's capital on Veteran's Day. The weather was perfect--sunny with a slight breeze. The course was the typical West Potomac Park course that's flat and fast. I can only describe this race as "sick" compared with other local races. I'll put it to you this way: I was 21s overall! Both the Georgetown Running Company and Pacers New Balance racing teams came in force. I went out with the first mile in 5:07 and I purposefully slowed a bit because I knew I was going way to fast too early. I forget the next mile split but I believe it was 10:20 something. Three miles was 15:55, four was (I think) 21:06, and 5 was 26:42 or somewhere around there (it was pretty hazy at that point). I caught a lot of people who went out too fast and had a surging contest was a GRC member who found another gear at the end. I saw the clock and gave everything I had in the hopes of breaking 33:00 I saw the clock hit 32:59 when I crossed so I had hoped my chip time might put me under. Unfortunately it's hard to tell since the BazuSports instant results are always a few seconds slow for some reason. I'll have to wait for the printed results to see for sure but since Bazu says 33:01 and I had 33:00, I'll go with 33:00. All in all I'd say a 38 sec. PR is a good day! Not to mention I feel that I definitely have the fitness to break 16:00 in the 5K. Hard to believe I can do this averaging my mileage in the 50-55 mpw range. I wonder how I'll do at shorter distances after averaging 70s while building up for Boston. should be a great year next year. Results
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