not too much to say today. I wanted to use this as a gauge of my current fitness. I have about 5 or 6 weeks until my half, which is my goal race. Last year I uncorked one here at this race. So I guess I also wanted to see how this years fitness level compared to last year. I really wanted to run a couple seconds under 6 per mile.
The pace went out fine. I was in the second pack, behind all the official track club racing team guys. The 5:52 first mile was just fine. It felt comfortable. Then from there it settled into a 6 min miles +/- a second or two. It was actually a pretty boring race for the most part. More like a time trial. I passed a couple guys in the first two miles, then another two between 3 and 5 miles. Then one more guy between 7 and 8. Other than that it was just me and the pavement. It was like a tempo run without my music. I made up 7 seconds in the last mile so that was a 5:53, which is good. Unfortunately I didn't put another couple of those miles in, so I didn't go under the hour mark. And it was 60 sec over my PR from last year. 10 miles in 60:12- ave pace 6:02 - 2nd place and first in AG The good thing was that the pace was more or less comfortable. The bad thing is that I think I got into that zone and stayed there for too long. I needed to go one slight notch higher. Either way, I feel good about the race. I think I can sustain that 6 min pace for three more miles, which is the ultimate goal.
| 