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Ovid Strawberry Festival 5K - Run5k

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Ovid, New York
United States
Ovid Fire and Rescue
70F / 21C
Sunny

Total Time = 26m 24s
Overall Rank = 17/78
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 3/10

Pre-race routine:

Ate breakfast (cheerios, milk, banana, coffee) 1 hour before the race. Drove to race, registered (at 7:50), drank some water.

Event warmup:

A couple of sprints and stretches.

Run

26m 24s
3.11 miles
08m 29s min/mile

Comments:

This run was a lot of fun! I had some friends with me, which was great, and the post race breakfast was good (with fresh strawberries). I didn't feel particularly prepared (haven't run much since the corporate challenge) but I still managed a PR, and my first AG placing! Not that the race was highly competitive, but my AG was the largest, and I was about 1 second behind #2 (I thought the finish was farther away than it was so I didn't start kicking until right before the end- I felt bad trying to pass her right at the end and probably didn't fight as much as I could have- it was a friendly, local race! Even so, she called me "sneaky" :)).

What would you do differently?:

Eat breakfast earlier, train more, pick a race with fewer hills, and know where the finish line is!

Post race

Warm down:

Drinking water and having breakfast

What limited your ability to perform faster:

Training

Event comments:

Great race for such a small town- It was fun to see everyone coming out to support the fire dept. This is the town where we have our summer place, so it is kind of home. By the way, the Musselman bike runs through Ovid! All in all a great race, motivating and fun for me to PR (and I won a bottle of wine for placing in my AG :)).

Last updated: 2007-06-16 12:00 AM

Running
00:26:24 \| 03.11 miles \| 08m 29s min/mile
Age Group:	3/10
Overall:	0/78
Performance:	Good
Course:	Started with a short steep hill, then mostly flat for about 1/2 mile, then a long downhill, then uphill, then turnaround, so we got to do the long uphill near the end! It was torture. The last 1/2 mile was mostly flat.
Keeping cool	Good	Drinking	Just right

Post race
Weight change:	%
Overall:	Below average
Mental exertion [1-5]	4
Physical exertion [1-5]	4
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]	4