This is just a low key fundraiser for our elementary school. No serious runners. Hardly worth a race report. The race starts at providence elementary and loops through River Heights. First mile is a slight downhill dropping about 60 feet and I went out way too fast, passing the first mile in 5:36. I assume this put me in a lactate debt I couldn't climb out of. Next mile and a half or so have uphills climbing about 90 feet before dropping back down 35 feet. Subtle hills but they felt like big hills after that stupid first mile. splits: 5:36, 6:13, 6:21, then 5:11 for 0.1 miles. I was kind of bummed by my performance in this race because of my poor splits. One high school kid hung with me for the first mile, which is probably why i went so fast, thinking he might challenge me, but then he self destructed and it was just a solo time trial from there. I guess I can think of it as one VO2max mile followed by a 2 mile recovery tempo and then a 0.1 mile lactate threshold push...
My nine year old twins ran the one mile finishing in 7:43 and 9:22. Not bad for absolutely no training and running in jeans and heavy sweatshirts.
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