{"id":6835,"date":"2019-02-02T21:57:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T03:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2019-02-03T07:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T13:31:27","slug":"fast-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=6835","title":{"rendered":"Fast day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Today’s run: 5k race in Starkville]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went over to Starkville this morning and ran in the 5k race, part of the Frostbite Half-Marathon (&10k &5k) event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My last 5k was in the summer of 2017 (30:29). And before that in November of 2016 (30:26). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may recall that I had some weight loss starting in late 2017, and I also did some track training last summer. I was thinking about running the same event in 2018 that I had run in 2017 to check my progress, but the schedule didn’t work out for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, today I was hoping for a sub-30 minute result. My recent runs have been pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 10k and 5k races started out at the same time and over the same course for the first few miles, probably almost 3 miles. We ran up the hill (west) on Main street, down a diagonal road to Scales\/Gillespie Street, east on Gillespie to where it comes out on Russell, then north to University St and back west to Main and a run up to the finish line. The 10k people went East at University St and went who knows where.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I felt like I was moving aggressively during the whole run. On a scale of 0-10 with 0 being asleep and 10 being maximum run-for-your-life, I was trying to be in the 6-7 range and I think I kept it there. I used my arms well on the uphills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I saw the clock as I got close to the finish line and it was 27:xx something and I was just as happy as can be. I ended up finishing in 27:33. That was good for first in my age group (out of 5). A lot of the runners my age were out doing the half-marathon. But I will take it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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