10:00AM – 39F
5K – 22:29
Even though it was in the mind 30’s it was very windy and it
felt much colder. The kids were
miserable the whole time, they don’t call it the polar bear race for
noting. It has been about 8 years since
my last 5K and I was extremely nervous.
Not like the marathon and half marathon I did last year where I was worried
about not finishing. I used to be so
fast and I was afraid that this would show how far I had fallen. I made some oatmeal but couldn’t eat any of
it because my stomach was in knots.
I took it kind of easy (for a 5K) because I don't know how
fast I can run and didn't want to kill myself in 2 miles. I haven’t done much speed work, last year I
did 2 – 1 mile repeats at 7:17, 7:04 so that’s the only thing I had to gage my
speed. I made the mistake of wearing my
sweat shirt which was too warm by the end of the first mile. I eventually tossed it to the wife and kids
near mile 2. I pinned the bib to the
sweatshirt so I ripped it off and finished with the bib in my hands.
I ran a pretty evenly paced race averaging 7:15 per
mile. I am just going to forget about previous
speediness and just be happy with this time.
Now the bar has been raised and it’s time to go work on regaining some
of that speed. I realized that it is
time to lose some weight, 7:15 miles is
really fast for 215 lbs I know I can run so much faster if I just lost some
weight.
