Cut 23sec off my 5k PR from early this season. I felt decent overall. There weren't a whole lot of people running this race but there were 3 others who went out with me in the lead. We hit the first mile as a pack and by mile 2 one guy and one girl (more on her later) started pulling away and I stuck with another young guy (probably 16-18yo). With about 800m to go I accelerated and pulled away from the kid and finished ~40sec off the winner. The girl who took 2nd overall is a little 14yo (that's not a typo) who typically smokes all the other ladies at the local road races. I think she ran 17:30!

Well, I just had my first HIM 6 days ago and although I'm not sore anymore I probably need more time for complete recovery. Also, my training for the last 3-4 months has been focused on the HIM so 5k isn't the best distance for me to be running right now.

The usual...tried my best to drag myself out of the finish lane and went for water. A little crawling turned into a weak walk and eventually I was upright and doing okay.


I'm not recovered from my HIM nad I haven't trained for such a short race.


This is a small local race to support the Holiday House (Benefiting mentally disabled children in Virginia). They had the basics covered as far as organization and everything seemed to work well...although I heard that the 1 mile race/walk they had earlier got off course for some reason. For such a small race they had a lot of prizes...$25, $20, and $15 cift certificates to one of the local running shops for the top 3 overall (M & F) and top 3 in every age group (M & F).