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Explore your limits 10K - Run10k

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Roanoke, Virginia
United States
Explore Park
50F / 10C
Sunny

Total Time = 55m 12s
Overall Rank = 25/87
Age Group = 40-44
Age Group Rank = 3/10

Pre-race routine:

I futzed about for a good while trying to decide what to wear. The day started off at about 35 degrees, but suny, by the time the gun (they had a costumed re-enactor actually shoot a musket) went off, it was in the high 40's I was glad I settled on a long-sleeved cycling jersey (wool) shorts, and a cap (freebie from the Montrail booth guy...cool). Drank a little accelerade, chatted with my friend who was running the 5k

Event warmup:

Jogged around a little

Run

55m 12s
6.21 miles
08m 53s min/mile

Comments:

My strategy of pacing off my friend (who is roughly just as fast as I am) for the first 5k worked out quite well. I got passed by 2 guys early in the second half of the race. I managed to pass the guy who I was following for the whoke second half of the race about 200 yards before the finish line.

What would you do differently?:

Not a thing.

Post race

Warm down:

Ate a couple of fig newtons and drank some gatorade while waiting for the awards.

Event comments:

They had the coolest awards for the overall winners, Arrows made by one of the native-american interpreters, napped stone arrowheads, turkey feather fletching, really cool

Last updated: 2007-03-05 12:00 AM

Running
00:55:12 \| 06.21 miles \| 08m 53s min/mile
Age Group:	3/10
Overall:	25/87
Performance:	Good
Course:	Started off on a fairly long downhill on mixed pavement, gravel, and dirt roadbed, hit the first singletrack and the firstclimb at the bottom of the hill. Desite having a lot of rain earlier in the week, the trails were pretty stable, only limited spots of spooge. The course went along the Roanoke River for a while and was fairly flat after the first little climb, then it wound through the park attractions (18th century village) and began a climb back to the 5k finish and the 10k split. After the 10k split off from the 5k, the trail turned into all singletrack (albeit wide-ish) for the final 10k.
Keeping cool	Good	Drinking	Just right

Post race
Weight change:	%
Overall:	Good
Mental exertion [1-5]	5
Physical exertion [1-5]	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:	Average
Race evaluation [1-5]	4