My Running Journey

Today I finished my 3rd 5K race in the past 5 days and this was a
really fun race. It was in memory of a fire chief who died in the
line of duty on father's day 6 years ago and the turn out was
enormous. Total for both the 5K race and the 1 mile fun run exceeded
over 2,000.

It was a hot day with temps at the start already 86 and it hit 90 by
the time we finished. With the tired legs from yesterday's race and
the heat I knew it would be a real challenge to run back to back sub
20 min 5K's and it turned out it wasn't meant to be.

The only real complaint I had was at the start of the race a bunch of
kids jumped up near the front after they were told not to. Many of
the kids were pushed out of the way and a few did hit the pavement
unfortunately but they should have not started the race and made them
go to the back where they belong.

Splits were:

Mile 1) 6:15
Mile 2) 6:39
Mile 3) 6:43
Mile .1) 0:48

Total Time 20:26 avg pace of 6:35

Overall finished 30 out 1,449 who finished, 5/107 in M 45-49 age group
but 1st in Military or prior Military age group. I was very happy
with this as it was a beautiful piece of hardware. If I hadn't done
the race yesterday I would have most likely taken 3rd in the age group.

On a side note I did pass the same guy again at around 1.5 mile mark
that I had beaten the last two races. I could see he was struggling
and did come in about 2 minutes behind me. Heat really got to him.

They had a great post race meal, free beer and ice cream. I really
enjoyed the day at the race and was a nice end to the speed week training.

Enjoy the day everyone.

Kurt