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Denver, Colorado
United States
BKB Ltd.
37F / 3C
Sunny
 		Total Time = 19m 44s
Overall Rank = 6/243
Age Group = 30-39
Age Group Rank = 3/27
Pre-race routine:

Woke up at 8 and decided to go race. Ate a waffle and a piece of bacon and some coffee. Drove to the race.
Event warmup:

Ran back and forth to the car and put stuff away. Ran some pickups to get the HR up.
Run
  • 19m 38s
  • 3.11 miles
  • 06m 19s  min/mile
Comments:

Good run. Started in the middle and went to the front with some others. Held relaxed pace. WIndy on the back section. Made it tough to go fast.
Mile 3 was better than mile 2 so I am happy. Met up with Matt,Jen,Ocky, and Shannon before the race and after. Thanks for cheering for me guys!
You guys all did awesome! Finished hard after being passed by 2 guys at mile 2.5. I think this was a PR but am not sure?
What would you do differently?:

Run more speed workouts. I am lacking speed and muscular endurace. Som I feel good after not doing any tempo or speed workouts to this point in my training.
Post race
Warm down:

Went to find my sweats at the start line, ate some bagels, coffee, and propel. Nice T-shirt.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

Speed work and Tempo runs. I know I can be faster.

Event comments:

Nice early season 5k to test the Lactate threshold. Which is 157 as of today.




Last updated: 2006-01-29 12:00 AM
Running
00:19:38 | 03.11 miles | 06m 19s  min/mile
Age Group: 3/27
Overall: 6/243
Performance: Good
Mile 1 -AVHR 158 PACE 6:03 Mile 2-AVHR 165 PACE 6:32 Mile 3-AVHR 169 PACE 6:30 Mile.1 AVHR 172
Course: Around Wash Park.
Keeping cool Good Drinking
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Good
Mental exertion [1-5] 3
Physical exertion [1-5] 3
Good race? Ok
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] 4

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2006-01-29 1:28 PM

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Subject: Polar Bear 5k

2006-01-29 11:34 PM
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Subject: RE: Polar Bear 5k
Holy Cats, that's fast, Mark! Way to fly through the freezing headwinds! Sort of a shame for both of us that the hardware only went to #1 & #2 in age group.... Great run!
2006-01-30 8:39 AM
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Wow ... great race time!  Any faster and you'll have to go back to college to compete ...

2006-01-30 8:54 AM
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I love how you set a PR, but you say you haven't been doing any speed work. Crazy.

 

So, did that serve as your running LT test?

2006-01-30 9:26 AM
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luv2ride - 2006-01-30 6:54 AM

I love how you set a PR, but you say you haven't been doing any speed work. Crazy.

 

So, did that serve as your running LT test?

I actually did not set a PR.  I did that at the Littleton Stride.  Yes that will serve as my LT test, although not as high as I was thinking it should be.

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