After the 5k in January I made plans to lose some weight and
get in some speed work before this race.
Well neither of those thinks happened although I did get in a tempo run
so I kinda did the speed part. My run
since then has been really inconsistent which isn’t great either.
I got up early and arrived at the train in the dark
alone. I was surprised to see some
friends that I didn’t know were running the race. I felt much better now that I had company and
they had done the race before so I could just follow them to the start. The biggest mistake I made in this race was
selling myself short. I should have started
a few rows from the front but I actually started about a block behind the
leaders.
When the race started I realized my mistake as I was running
with people who were going 10 min/mile.
I accelerated into every opening I saw but then had nowhere to go and
then had to slow down. It was
frustrating and tiring speeding up and then hitting a wall of people. This continued for most of the race only
opening enough for me to run the last mile at a good pace. I think probably ran the last mile at about
my 5K pace (7:15). It did feel a little
good to be passing people not stop from the beginning to the end of the race.
