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Location:

FL,United States

Member Since:

Feb 08, 2015

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Certified course PR's:

Mile: 4:28.0 (Florida, Jan 2020)

5K: 15:12 (FL, Jan. 2020)

10K: 31:44 (FL, Feb. 2020)

15K: 49:03 (FL, Feb. 2020)

1/2 Marathon: 1:10:34 (FL, Feb. 2020)

Marathon: 2:26:57 (WA, July 2019)

100k (63.7 miles, trail): 9:11:00 (FL, Jan. 2019)

Personal:

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Sun, Sep 13, 2015
Race: Hooters 10k (6.214 Miles) 00:34:31, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.006.2110.21

AM: After a good warmup, I took to the start line.  This is surprisingly a tough course for being in Florida (no real hills).  Lots of weird turns, U-turns, 90 degree turns, turns while switching surfaces, and the end allows for NO speed since you have to zig-zag a parking lot.  Needless to say, I should be happy with the result, but I'm not.  

 

The 10k left with the 5k group, so I decided to go out at around 5:28-5:30 or so.  After about 2.5 miles, I was breathing relatively okay, but there wasn't anyone behind me, and the ones that were within 20-30 seconds were guys doing the 5k, so after looking back after the turn off, I just relaxed into a slower pace.  I wasn't really happy with myself for this, but in the moment I couldn't talk myself out of it.  Disappointed in my effort today.

Splits-

Mile 1- 5:26

Mile 2- 5:26

Miles 3 to 6.2- Averaged between 5:40 and 5:50s.

 

 

Comments
From Drew on Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 18:09:30 from 173.171.218.92

Mike, you should be proud. I saw the race results and noticed you held off the 64 year old woman who was trying to kick you down.

Joking aside, I don't think you should be disappointed at all. Running mid-34 in the summer is hard. When you add in no competition and a tricky course, I would look at that as an excellent first step toward what will be your best racing season, no doubt.

From Mike on Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 06:29:27 from 168.213.5.107

Lol, and taking a closer look: it was a 65 year old man AND his 64 year old wife who tried sprinting me out at the line apparently- they tried to Kenyan box me out I guess like Mo Farah in that 10k, haha. They snuck up on me like ghosts ;)

Thanks for the positive words. It's hard to stay positive about this one, so that's helpful.

By the way... next up is the infamous Pretty in Pink 15k... Did you just shudder for me?

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