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AVOHK 5k Series #2 Tai Tam

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Location:

Kowloon Tong,Hong Kong

Member Since:

Jul 02, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Unaided:

5K - 17:11 (track Pre-kids and at BYU) (1998)

10K - 35:48 (track Pre-kids and at BYU) (1998)

10K - 35:34 (road - Shek Mun 10k 12/12)

1/2 Marathon 1:19:44 (UNICEF HM 11/12)

Marathon 2:47:08 (ING Hartford Connecticut 10/10)

Aided:

St. George Marathon 2:50:40 (10/08)

1/2 marathon - Hobble Creek 1:17:14 (8/08)

10K - Deseret News 10K - 35:02 (7/08)

Short-Term Running Goals:

PR 1/2 marathon AGAIN


Long-Term Running Goals:

Break 2:46 in Boston!

Personal:

I used to run for BYU, but only after trying out three times and finally walking on, so I was never a star. However, it was wonderful to run with great people and under Coach Shane. When you run with fast people, you can't help to improve! I graduated BYU in 1998, and didn't run a race until 2002, after having my second child. My hiatus and other crazy life commitments have made my competitive running suffer, but the last couple of years I have tried to get back into it the best I can. I have been married since 1996, to Paul Lowry, who is a runner himself. I have three boys (my three rascals), ages 12, 10, and 8.

After a great 2008 season, I was injured and eventually diagnosed and cross-diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, a type of arthritis disease, which precludes running for all but the most stubborn.  So I am on medications, trying to stay healthy, and seeing my PT often.  And running!  Now beating the streets in Hong Kong.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
NB RC900 Black/yellow Lifetime Miles: 183.31
NB RC1300 Red/Black Lifetime Miles: 195.31
2012 MTR Lifetime Miles: 4035.70
890 Blue Lifetime Miles: 310.55
NB RC 1600 Lifetime Miles: 96.76
RC 1400 Lifetime Miles: 90.60
NB 890 Baby Blue Lifetime Miles: 233.26
NB 890 Electric Blue Lifetime Miles: 319.67
NB 890 Tokyo Turquoise Lifetime Miles: 163.54
Race: AVOHK 5k Series #2 Tai Tam (3.11 Miles) 00:19:41, Place overall: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
6.250.000.003.110.000.000.009.36

Slept in until 7:30am, then got myself and the family up and prepared to go to the beach for a church social.  Ben and Paul were able to wakeboard with the scouts, and Ben earned his watersports merit badge by going out and back into the boat's wake three times.  Awesome.  After beaching for 2.5 hours I went to Lily Lew's to chill for a couple of hours until my afternoon race.  I ran the course to check out the monster hill, and this hill was no joke.  It is the steepest hill I have ever raced on, and it is about a 1k long.  So the race is flatish for about a k, then steep uphill for about a k, then loop for a k, then steep downhill, then flat.  So my watch band has been screwy and broke in my backpack, so I couldn't wear it for the race, which was a good thing, because who wants a watch's feedback "You're going super slow up this hill!  Might as well walk it!".  

I wanted to keep in touch with Reiny, who beat me by four seconds in the last 5k.  The race started out fast, and I was about 10 sec behind Reiny's pack of boys at the start of the hill.  He tucked into the back of this pack of about 7, then there were two kids and an adult between me and that pack.  I told myself to watch the back of the people ahead of me the whole time I go up the hill, and catch the pack by the top.  So I got one kid by half way, then got another kid and the adult, then picked off about half of the pack as it broke up.  Reiny was on fire though and raced the hill just right.  Started the hill at the back of the pack and beat them all.  I passed another adult on the flat k, then was in no man's land (an adult about 15 seconds ahead, not feeling pressure from behind) for the rest of the race.  The first half of the downhill k I booked it, my legs were going so fast and I thought, "This must be what Alta Peruvian is like."  I was trying to make progress on the dude ahead but he was using the hill too.  I tried to keep the momentum as the hill decreased and transition to the flat well, but I am sure I would have done better if there were people around me.  As I passed where I thought I was 300m from the end, I saw that it was 19:07ish on my stopwatch, so I pushed it in to get under 20.  My watch said 19:41, and the official results are not up yet.  I will update this race report when the official results are up to show how I faired compared to others who also did this 5k and the 5k before. 

4k warm up and 6k cool down 

So I went 68 seconds slower than the race last week, and the average for other top runners who were men twas about 45 seconds slower, so I didn't fare so well in that comparison. 

2012 MTR Miles: 24.00NB 880 V2 B Miles: 2.80
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From josse on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 17:35:46 from 70.196.201.22

Great job on the win Michelle! sounds like a tough course.

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