Lowry Park Zoo'"Zoo Run Run" - Run5k


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Tampa, Florida
United States
Sunny
Total Time = 32m 37s
Overall Rank = 362/664
Age Group = 40-45W
Age Group Rank = 18/25
Pre-race routine:

walk to packet pickup, bathroom, back to car. Real bathrooms!
Event warmup:

stretched a bit and stared at strange people. I wore the Tri Princess shirt!
Run
  • 32m 37s
  • 3.1 miles
  • 10m 31s  min/mile
Comments:

This was planned to be an all out HR zone finding thingie. Maybe doing it by myself was a bad idea because I didn't do as well as I hoped. I got tired really quick and was unable to push myself. I told myself don't look at the watch, don't look at the watch. I felt good that I was actually passing people for once, so thought I was doing well, but then they yelled the one mile split, I'm like, WTF??? damn. I could feel my legs burning shortly into mile 2. Couple little rollers. The only thing I did that made me happy was pass more people instead of being passed and I passed Mrs. Horrible Saddlebags with half a mile to go after she leapfrogged me the entire course. So maybe it wasn't all bad.
What would you do differently?:

run with someone.
Post race
Warm down:

talked to Hank. He was the only familiar face there. Not much. Ate. Pizza, chicken sandwiches, smoothies, fruit, water all was available. Went home and drove boys around all day.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

my running sucks.

Event comments:

IT's depressing, am I ever gonna run a 5K in under 30 minutes??
max HR for the race was 177, overall average was 169. I wonder if I could of tried harder.... or am I just fat and out of shape??
*sigh*
Next 5K coming soon... probably Richard's Run for Life, nighttime run through Ybor City. He has the BEST post race food!!




Last updated: 2007-09-16 12:00 AM
Running
00:32:37 | 03.1 miles | 10m 31s  min/mile
Age Group: 0/25
Overall: 0/664
Performance: Below average
mile 1 10:01 avg 162 mile 2 11:00 avg 172 mile 3 11:35 avg 171
Course: all over the Zoo.
Keeping cool Drinking
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall:
Mental exertion [1-5]
Physical exertion [1-5]
Good race?
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities:
Race evaluation [1-5]