Run Through The Rapids 10K
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Comments: FIRST AGE-GROUP PLACE EVER!!! Went home with a medal!!! WooHoo!!! Happy...Really Happy, in fact. Since I haven't run 6 miles in one workout since March, I figured anything below a 9:00 pace would be fine. Imagine my surprise when I kept clicking off 8:10 miles! The mileage did get me a little as I developed a side-stitch in the last mile which slowed me some. Plus we were running into a slight headwind for the final mile. Great to be racing again, and really fun to hear your name called at the awards ceremony. What would you do differently?: Not much...ran with some folks at key parts of the race which helped me keep my pace solid. Post race
Warm down: Stretched a lot and kept downing bagels. Kept walking around. (Had to...the cool-down area was in the cold shadow of a large building. It was cold in the shade.) What limited your ability to perform faster: Not much recent race experience. Event comments: Great small race! First year in a new location, so there were small glitches. (The start was a hoot...no sound system there at the starting line, so the inexperienced starter just through up his arms and yelled GO!) And who was the smartie to put a curb 15 feet past the start line across half the course. I saw it and veered right, but lots of people didn't and some nearly fell. Last updated: 2005-10-18 12:00 AM
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2005-10-18 8:01 AM |
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United States
50F / 10C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 80/169
Age Group = Males 30-34
Age Group Rank = 3/5
Did the normal thing...bowl of oatmeal 3 hours before the race and lots of water up until 2 hours before the race.
Not much...not much at all. Just the normal minimal stretching and walking around.