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Comments: I wish I had mile splits, but my GPS was very inaccurate on the tight and twisty course. It had the total distance at 2.8 miles so I can't trust any mile splits. I feel as though I started too fast, but didn't really die off relative to other runners, or that I could feel. Last year at this race I did the run in 20:15? But the course was only about 3 miles long last year. They adjusted the distance this year so I wasn't actually slower. I just expected to be faster than I was with another year of consistent running under my belt. What would you do differently?: Would it have been possible, or advisable to have done speed work in the previous month?  Post race
Warm down: After the race I went back on the course about half a mile and waited for Jordan and Evan to come by and jogged it in with them. Event comments: This was my Son Evan's first 5k. He is 11 years old. He has never run that far continuously before....technically didn't here either. He walked only a few times during up hills. That's a tactic I have told him is wise and he did great! Now I owe him $3. (He's a pro runner. He gets a salary of $1 for every mile he runs). Last updated: 2012-01-23 12:00 AM
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 2012-01-23 9:57 AM |
Master  2327    Columbia, TN |  Subject: Nashville Zoo Run Run |
| 2012-01-23 10:52 AM in reply to: #4005719 |
| NH | Subject: RE: Nashville Zoo Run Run Great race, the conditions and course sound pretty interesting. That's also great on your son, but does going pro mean he can't enter tri's in the AG groups? |
| 2012-01-23 1:22 PM in reply to: #4005719 |
Master 3486 Fort Wayne | Subject: RE: Nashville Zoo Run Run Pretty awesome run! The quick turns and hills would have had to keep the time higher than a nice flat course. Imagine what the time might have been on a flat..............SMOKIN'!! Hopefully your son will listen to his father/coach and be killin someof his own races later on down the road. |
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Age Group = 45-49
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This unique race begins at 3pm, so I got to sleep in, take a hot bath to loosen the legs, walk the dogs...
Don't remember what I ate!
After getting bibs and timing chips picked up and situated for myself, my daughter Jordan, and son Evan I began to jog around beginning about 40 minutes prior to start. Alternated walking/jogging until 10 minutes prior to race start then changed in to my racing flats and continued to jog and do some pick ups.
At the last possible moment I ditched my warm-ups underneath a traffic cone and pushed my way to near the front of the assembled runners.