This morning was a little test 5K, the local school fundraising fun mile and 5K. The kids ran the mile, they were training after school on Wednesdays for the last few weeks. So I figure that I'd join the fun. I felt pretty good despite not remembering what speed felt like. There weren't too many fast starters, so I only had a few people to focus on for passing. I moved into 2nd by 1.5 miles and tried to maintain from there. I didn't feel like I had mush more to give today, but I guess I'm happy since I haven't worked on any speed over the winter. It was kind of boring running alone for the last 1/2 of the race. It was nice to be 2nd, but hard to watch Kristian put the time between
me and him, especially in the last mile. I really wasn't sure how to
race anymore. Next time I'll know better. The course was pretty hilly and was a bit long so I ended up with just under 6 min per mile. I guess that isn't bad with the first mile at 5:53 or something. Not too bad of a fade.
More importantly, the kids did awesome on their mile race. Q came in under 15 min and S came in under 10 - about a minute under last year. I missed S finish but I got to run the last .2 with Q, which was cool.
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