AM: 2 Miles with the team. Hung out mostly with the coaches, and then had a "business" meeting afterwards about money- not my idea of fun.
PM: 2.5 mile warm up and cool down, then decided to run in the Bellair Sunset 5k under an incognito name as I haven't been running much and have been injured, so I thought I'd just relax more if I did it this way. I figured, what the hell- it's a 5k, and I can do 3 miles on my easy runs pretty handily right now, albeit not expecting race pace. The course ended up being a tad short this year as they changed things up a bit by about .05-.07 depending on the watch you read, so add about 25 seconds to the times.
My alias: Dick Tater. Now, Dick Tater knew he has not been running real well in a while and was coming off an injury, so he took it conservative right in the beginning, and assumed that even with a 5:30 mile he'd be gassed. He rolled right through mile 1 in 6th place behind a set of 3 high schoolers, a savvy veteran (Larry Smart), and what looked like a child not even old enough to run (turned out to be 16 years old). The first two runners he caught during the next mile while running the same pace, each time coming up next to them and just gradually passing them, making note that their breathing was heavy and taxed. Mile 3 came, and he was shocked that at about the 2.1 he had a lot of gas left and the wind at his back, so he decided to just go for it. Now, Dick has raced one of these guys before and knew a quick kick past him and a speed up would be needed, so as he passed them both, he sped things up quite a bit. Larry challenged and Dick Tater was worried, but fortunately Larry (and the pint-sized companion trailing him) decided to let him be and not to chase, allowing him to glide in with a 7-second advantage to get second place.
The crowd was the funniest when they announced my name as "Dick Tater", to which the announcer apologized as he though he mispronounced it. Oh. He pronounced it perfectly...
1 Luke Peterson 17 M 1 OVERALL 15:52
2 Dick Tater 30 M 1 30-34 16:21
3 Larry Smart 46 M 1 Masters 16:28
4 Cooper Labrant 16 M 1 15-19 16:32
5 Jackson Gillette 17 M 2 15-19 16:32
6 Christian Kondor 16 M 3 15-19 16:44
7 John Robida 35 M 1 35-39 16:58
Splits:
Mile one 5:27
Mile two 5:31
Mile three 5:12
Finish ~0:11
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