Saturday, June 16, 2007
Diamond Dash 5K Race Results
Today I did the first of two 5K's this weekend. With the goal to start racing myself back into 5K shape this was a good opportunity to see how I was doing especially after doing the speed workout 5K on Wednesday.
Weather was a tad warm at 75 degrees but a nice gentle wind was blowing so I never felt heat was an issue.
Roughly 700 people showed up for this race and I knew it was going to be competitive when I saw several of the running clubs show up in force.
Did my usual 2.25 mile warm up and then did the race.
Mile 1) 6:03
Mile 2) 6:31
Last 1.1 mile) 7:12
Total time was 19:47 for a 6:22 pace
Mile 1 was a tad short according to my garmin and mile 2 compensated for it.
Overall 33rd, 5/35 in M 45-49 age group. No hardware but still I enjoyed it. The guy who I beat on Wednesday by 6 seconds for 2nd place was there and he was ahead of me the whole way. I was slowly realing him in and caught up with about a 100 meters to go. At that point we both did a semi kick (not much in the tank though) and I beat him by 1 second. It was his PR so he was pretty happy.
Tomorrow I hope to break 20 minutes.
Enjoy the day everyone.
Kurt
Today I did the first of two 5K's this weekend. With the goal to start racing myself back into 5K shape this was a good opportunity to see how I was doing especially after doing the speed workout 5K on Wednesday.
Weather was a tad warm at 75 degrees but a nice gentle wind was blowing so I never felt heat was an issue.
Roughly 700 people showed up for this race and I knew it was going to be competitive when I saw several of the running clubs show up in force.
Did my usual 2.25 mile warm up and then did the race.
Mile 1) 6:03
Mile 2) 6:31
Last 1.1 mile) 7:12
Total time was 19:47 for a 6:22 pace
Mile 1 was a tad short according to my garmin and mile 2 compensated for it.
Overall 33rd, 5/35 in M 45-49 age group. No hardware but still I enjoyed it. The guy who I beat on Wednesday by 6 seconds for 2nd place was there and he was ahead of me the whole way. I was slowly realing him in and caught up with about a 100 meters to go. At that point we both did a semi kick (not much in the tank though) and I beat him by 1 second. It was his PR so he was pretty happy.
Tomorrow I hope to break 20 minutes.
Enjoy the day everyone.
Kurt
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