Cooper River Bridge 10K Run - Run10k

Even though in the 40-50 minute corral, people were jogging/walking and most definately not in the right corral. Tried to get to the front of the corral near the seaded runners but no one would move. WTF people. The first half mile was chaos. Found a "little" room to at least try and pass people after the .5 mark. Found some running lanes around 1.5m mark and started to make my way up the bridge. First 2 splits were OK considering the crowds. Bridge split was slower than I expected but still felt good. Opened up on the downhill as much as my little stumpy legs open up. Easily negative split (almost 30s) the second 5k. Didn't realize I was close to going under 40:00 (I had 41:20 as a goal) until about mile 4 and then I couldn't do the math to figure out what pace I needed to break 40 so I just continued on around 6:30/m and see where it got me. Had a good push to the finish and looked at watch and realized I could have gotten under 40 if I knew what pace I needed because I still had gas left in the tank. Oh Well! Shaved almost 2:00 of 10k PR and came in almost a minute under goal pace.

Figure out best case senerio pace "just in case". Today would have been the "just in case" day as I felt great from start to finish.

Lack of stetchin lead my calfs to start cramping almost immediately after crossing the finishing line. Hurt like a MF. Got my free food/water, stretched a little, and just hung out until all the freebies were gone and bridge was opened back up.


Crowds


No water until mile 4 unless I totally missed the water table before the bridge. Overall: great race, great city, great crowds, great running weather.