Conoco Phillips Rodeo Run 5K/10K

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Conoco Phillips Rodeo Run 5K/10K - Run5k


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Houston, Texas
United States
49F / 9C
Sunny
 		Total Time = 25m 5s
Overall Rank = /
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Pre-race routine:

Glad to sleep in till 6:30 since we celebrated my wife's b-day last evening. Race start 10K @ 9:30a, 5K @ 9:45. Downtown Houston run prior to Houston Livestock and Rodeo annual parade. My first time doing this and wow what a gathering; 13,000 combined runners and since it started where parade starts tons of spectators, cowboys, horses and wagons. Bright sunny morning welcomed all participants. Aggie band got things going prior to race. No chip timing for 5k so relied on Garmin.
Event warmup:

Ate breakfast at home, oatmeal/eggs/coffee for ride into town
Run
  • 25m 5s
  • 3.1 miles
  • 08m 05s  min/mile
Comments:

Nice run, always tough to pace well early with lots of runners. Moved up close to start, not close enough, took over a mile to have good spacing. Best costume, 5 girls with grass skirts, green shirts and on back one letter each spelling out RODEO. They were running side by side, gotta luv it. Tried to keep pace under 8/mi for mile 2 and 3. Lap 1 8:34.Lap 2 7:56 Lap 3 7:47. Not a PR but very happy with time.
What would you do differently?:

Nada
Post race
Warm down:

Post race, lots of lara and kash bars, gogurt, bananas, snickers, powerade, COFFEE-yea, hats, cups, soft drinks and beer plus live C&W band on stage. Nice thing about 5K, finishing early and first dibs on food. Excellent

What limited your ability to perform faster:

first mile pacing

Event comments:

Great venue, do 10K next year.




Last updated: 2010-02-08 12:00 AM
Running
00:25:05 | 03.1 miles | 08m 05s  min/mile
Age Group: 0/
Overall: 0/
Performance: Good
Course: Downtown Smith st to Minute Maid Park C parking lot.
Keeping cool Average Drinking
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall:
Mental exertion [1-5]
Physical exertion [1-5]
Good race? Yes
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities: Good
Race evaluation [1-5] 5

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2010-02-27 12:46 PM

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Subject: Conoco Phillips Rodeo Run 5K/10K

2010-03-01 2:34 PM
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Subject: RE: Conoco Phillips Rodeo Run 5K/10K

I saw a lot of girls (and a few guys) in grass skirts thursday at the Jimmy Buffet concert! None of them were running though!

Nice job!  Big 5k's are fun, but tough to get going and recoup the lost time in the crowd! 

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