(photo: Ben!)
so, it probably wasn't the best idea to spend the last two days on my feet 8 hours a day, painting and cleaning my condo to get it ready for sale. and it also wasn't the best that it rained this morning, and it's humid as hell. but whatever. my goal was 28:00 but I said I'd be happy under 30:00.
i didn't warm up at all. the little "program" before the race took almost as long as the race itself, and featured Miss Chicago as emcee. i'm learning that the pre-race song-and-dance is really just something to suffer through. we're there to run, and it's great that it's for a cause and all, but you already have our money... do we really need a lecture about the issue? either way, Ben was nice enough to get up early and come cheer me on, one of like 5 spectators on the course. he and i poked fun at the "program" together.
the first mile led me to rename the race "puddlejumper 5k." it went south on a trail that was covered in puddles and we were all running on the grass, cross-country style. it was muddy. i was zig-zagging all over the place, leading my gizmo to call the 1 mile mark about a tenth of a mile early.
i had the gizmo set to race mode, and it had a little pace guy and me chasing him the whole time. from the start, the pacer was ahead, and i never caught up. it was pushing for 9:00 miles, but it just didn't happen. in mile 2 the humidity set in, and it sort of kicked my ass. my heart rate was reasonable- in the 160's- but i just couldn't push much harder. it was miserable. people started walking around 2miles in but i didn't let myself.
my gizmo had me finish a healthy distance before the actual finish line (about a block early) but gave me a 29:20. who knows what my chip time is, should be posted later. the clock said 11:something when i hit the first mile, though my garmin said it was a 9:24 mile. so, whatever.
it just seemed like a lot of work and fanfare and money and such to run 5k. i run 5k just about every morning. it's nice to have a chip time, but today taught me that it doesn't mean much unless conditions allow. onward.
(UPDATE: chip time says 30:49. um, there's no way. my guess is the course was long. to check though, i hit up the gmap-pedometer, and came up with this. yeah, it was long. so, after getting up early and paying and driving i still don't have a good 5k chip time. but the garmin was right. so i'll call it a 29:20.)
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4 replies:
I know exactly what you mean about the pre-race pep talk stuff. When my friend and I did the Y-me on mother's day they made us stand through a pre-recorded satellite transition promo thing that kept crapping out (and wouldn't just turn it off when it was obvious that the tech difficulties were going to take a very long time). Meanwhile it was cold, pouring rain, and extremely windy. We'd already entered, got donations, etc - talk about preaching to the choir!
They needed to just let us run the damned thing so we could get somewhere warm asap.
yea im proud of you for not letting yourself give up! and you finished w a smile..so important. oh i started the couch to 5k. i have 2 runs in i kinda like it.
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Nice job Julie! This heat is something else!
Great job! That's so weird that the course was long. Shouldn't that be kind of a simple thing to set up and get right?!
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