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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Another 5K and long run
Exercise: Friday - Lifted weights at UAH.
Saturday - Did the Twilight 5K at UAH Campus. This is another evening race (very hot and humid). They run the men's race first, then the women's. So in the actual race, there was no possibility of me getting "chicked" (beaten by a girl :) ). This is definitely not a PR course, with a pretty substantial hill at the 2.7 mile mark and a cone turn around near the halfway point. Tried once again to start out conservatively, but ran a 5:56 first mile. Steve Shipley, and old running buddy, was at the one mile marker yelling encouragement to his son, Austen, telling him not to let the "old man" elbow him out of the way. Austen took this to heart for while, trying his best not to let me by, but finally gave up. I hit the two mile mark at 12:14, still on pace for a sub 19:00 time, but again faded the last mile (badly this time), finishing in 19:33, 2nd in my age group, 11th out of 143 overall - results here.
Sunday - did 8.21 miles on Monte Sano - Family Bike trail - Mtn. Mist Trail, Warpath Ridge, Red Lizard, Flat Rock connector. Had planned on doing the Flat Rock trail, but it was too overgrown. Did see a grey fox just before I turned around.
Total mileage for the week: 12.06
Total mileage for the month : 81.31
Saturday - Did the Twilight 5K at UAH Campus. This is another evening race (very hot and humid). They run the men's race first, then the women's. So in the actual race, there was no possibility of me getting "chicked" (beaten by a girl :) ). This is definitely not a PR course, with a pretty substantial hill at the 2.7 mile mark and a cone turn around near the halfway point. Tried once again to start out conservatively, but ran a 5:56 first mile. Steve Shipley, and old running buddy, was at the one mile marker yelling encouragement to his son, Austen, telling him not to let the "old man" elbow him out of the way. Austen took this to heart for while, trying his best not to let me by, but finally gave up. I hit the two mile mark at 12:14, still on pace for a sub 19:00 time, but again faded the last mile (badly this time), finishing in 19:33, 2nd in my age group, 11th out of 143 overall - results here.
Sunday - did 8.21 miles on Monte Sano - Family Bike trail - Mtn. Mist Trail, Warpath Ridge, Red Lizard, Flat Rock connector. Had planned on doing the Flat Rock trail, but it was too overgrown. Did see a grey fox just before I turned around.
Total mileage for the week: 12.06
Total mileage for the month : 81.31
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