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November 24, 2005
Happy Thanksgiving, and I guess tapering really does work
Wow, I am kind of excited about the race I ran today. I thought that I could run under 30:00 but I was kind of not too sure about it since I haven't been running much (before today my mileage for the week was a rocking 9 miles), and I had not been feeling particularly fast.
Anyway here is how things went. I warmed up for about 20 minutes including one stride. I felt pretty good which was a little bit troublesome, usually when I run well I feel terrible as I warm up. I lined up close to the front but not too close (I should have, in retrospect, lined up closer to the front because so many people line up way too close to the front). I was only standing around for maybe 5 minutes. I lost Matt and our friends when I started my warmup so I was sad not to see them at the beginning, but oh well.
I crossed the mat (the race is chip timed thankfully) about 30 seconds after the start and started passing a ton of people right away. My plan was to run 7:30 for the first mile, and my actual time was 7:04. Whoops. I felt good though. Through the second mile I was with these four high school/college guys who were jogging the race (for them) that were kind of entertaining so that definitely helped things go by fast. They took off right around mile 2 which I passed in 7:11 (I think the second mile of the course is slightly long). Then I was running with some older guy who was like 'What are you thinking, 28?' Of course I told him I'd be happy under 30:00 and my fastest time for the race was 28:43. He told me I could beat them both and run 28:00, but after the second mile I was not too sure. I kept picking people off through the third mile which is mostly downhill and that mile was 6:48. At that point I thought if I ran a 6:55 for the last mile that would be cool and I'd be right around 28! So that's what I tried for. I ended up running a lot of the last mile with a nice girl who runs for CSU - and some guy she knew helped us along for a little while, so that was nice. We chatted a little bit but then I ended up pulling away from her a bit, and passed one other girl, when I saw my 28:00 guy again. He told me to come on and I tried but he did beat me. Some gargantuan woman also finished rihgt in front of me, although I think I could have passed her. Oh well. Anyway my last mile was 6:12!! I think that mile four is a little short (making up for the fact that mile two is a bit long) but still that is sweet. I was pretty excited. So my chip time should be just about 27:17, which is a huge PR for this course and I believe it is a 4 mile race PR as well.
I think that I may be around the 30th female as well - I can't wait to see the results online! I also want to mention that Matt ran about 37:30 which is a huge PR for him as well. His last mile was an 8:30 which is just awesome. He ran so well!
So that was fun. I have cooled down for about 1.5 total miles so I am about to go run .5 miles just for the sake of being obsessive compulsive.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Posted by barb at November 24, 2005 11:45 AM
Comments
Congrats on a huge PR!! Maybe that tapering stuff really does work!
Blondie
Posted by: Blondie at November 24, 2005 12:16 PM
OH WOW!!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!
Posted by: Audrey at November 24, 2005 01:29 PM
Congratulations on the big PR! It's awesome that you had people to work with. I hope you enjoyed the rest of your Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Alison at November 25, 2005 06:05 PM
Whoa, helluva run! Don't go run 0.5 ;p
Posted by: 給飛行 at November 25, 2005 10:52 PM
Great job! I hope you treated yourself to an extra piece of pie or something for that p.r.!
Posted by: jenandmats at November 26, 2005 09:10 PM