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Comments: I went out for this race to take first in my wave group of 50.00 - 51.59. Last year I got 50:22 in the Bolder Boulder. I have been training really hard since then and I had a feeling I really had good chance to win this thing! Also, I have always wanted to run a sub 20 5k my whole life and I have still never done so. Last week I hit a new PR on the Turkey day 5K of 20:16 in Highlands Ranch and I felt like I held back on that race so if I pushed it right, I could finally hit a sub 20 5k! I was going to try to pace myself and run 6:26 on mile one, 12:52 on mile 2, and hit mile 3 at 19:18 and that would put me at 19:58 on the full 5K if I kept that pace. This was the plan... I sized up my competition right away and saw the top 3 I had to beat immediately before the start. You can usually tell by body build who is an avid runner and these 3 were built for speed. The gun went off and immediately 5 guys shot out front. The additional 2 that I hadn't sized up as competition weren't really a worry to me. I could just smoke'em later, (and I did at mile 1!) I passed up 2 of the lead pack and had 3 left to go just before mile one. I looked at my watch at the mile one marker and I had way negative split! I was at 5:49! Ouch! I knew I was going to pay for that later... I eased up a little and still plucked off 2 more in doing so... on the hills of course! I love to pass on hills... it really crushes a man's ego when you surge on a hill and they're just hurting! I offered words of encouragement though as I passed them. Something like, "Good job" or "Keep it up, you're doing great!" Now... I had one left to go! I hit mile 2 and my watch read 12:00 flat! I wanted to be at 12:52! Damn! Another negative split! I was going to be hurting this last mile and still had one more to catch! This kid was fast and just kept pulling away with each step. I later found out he was 15! He looked to be 18 if I had to guess. Anyway, he got 19:48! WOW! If I had paced better and not pushed so hard I would have only been ten seconds behind him but I went out too fast and I fell apart the last mile... Oh well, you live, you race, and you learn! I still got a PR out of it! What would you do differently?: I would have stuck with my personal pace and not gone out so hard! I really got caught up in the lead pack and just wanted to run fast and not smart. Lesson learned! Post race
Warm down: Jogged the field loop twice and then walked and streched for several minutes. What limited your ability to perform faster: Over doing it on mile one big time and my knee was still buggung me a bit! Event comments: I always love Bolder Boulder ran events! They really have got there act together! Last updated: 2008-11-24 12:00 AM
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United States
Bolder Boulder
54F / 12C
Overcast
Overall Rank = 2/40
Age Group = NA
Age Group Rank = 0/
Woke up 45 minutes late at 6:45am... my alarm clock didn't go off for some reason! :( Skipped the shower got dressed, ate breakfast and was out the door ASAP. I wanted to be in my car and on my way to Boulder at 6:45am not just waking up!
Had the usual for breakfast - Uncle Sams cereal and strawberries and the half a Clifbar an hour before the race.
Got there at 7:40 am. My wave start time was at 9:00 am so I had a little time to kill. I always like being really early and soak in the atmosphere of the race course. I did a lot of stretching and jogging in the field house before hand. My knee had been giving me some trouble earlier in the week and I wanted to avoid injury at all costs!