Went down and ran with the chumps today. And had a great time. I finally got one of my friends to come join us Marty. Plus we had a few of the regulars and another new fast kid. So there was a nice big group out running. I only did a little over 7 with them before bailing for a 5k race. The race was for a kid that is 4 and has 1-30 violent seisures a day. So they are trying to raise money for a operation and help him out. They had a great turnout for the race I would say 250-300 people. Not many serious runners but there were a few there. Since it was a fun run but I was going for a time. I lined up behind a young kid that looked like he would be able to win it. And told him to lead the way and stay on the course.:) So it after a late start we got going. There was this kid that I was using to kind of gauge my speed. And ignored all the young kids that took off fast at the first. About half a mile into it. A woman caught up to me with this kid about 10 yrds ahead of me. And notice I was running at a 5:30 pace. And started to back off the speed. By .8 into it I was still at a sub 6 pace. But for the first bit we had a tail wind from the south. Now we were heading into it. And It helped to slow it down a bit more. And I just tried to relax. I was sitting in 3rd place and thought I would run it a bit competitive if all possible. In the 2nd mile I had 2 guys catch me and pass me. Not by much they were just a few steps ahead and I let them kind of fight the wind for me for a while and just draft behind the. One of them started to drop about half way through this mile. And we started up a hill and the wind was less of a factor then. And I just hung with this guy that was fighting for 3rd. I passed him on the hill and held my spot just a bit ahead of him and got a small gap when we started coming downhill again. So I just tried to relax with around a mile to go. Maybe too much relaxing. And we started battling it out again. With 2nd place a bit ahead of us still. But still in sight. With .5 or so to go he started taking off stronger. And started to gap me a bit more. I didn't really feel to tired by the effort. But just that there wasn't much there to go with still from the marathon last weekend. I was able to hang a few steps for till my watch hit 3 miles. And we hadn't even hit the final stretch. And as he rounded the final corner took off really strong. I had no response to it. So in that last .15 he ended up beating me by 8 secs. I ended up finishing it 4th place overall. No AG in this one. The gal took first with like a 19:40. 2nd was 20:30ish and we were 21:11 and 21:19 for me in 4th place. The 5th place guy was a min or so behind us. So they gave out some prizes for top 5 finishers suprisingly. I won a free smoothy.:) And they did a raffle also that I spent and got 9 of them to support the cause. I won alot of stuff at that too. 3 out of my 9 raffles won me some subs and apptizers and kids meals. LOL it was funny. What I great thing to do for my Bday.:) Not that being 37 is so exciting as turning 35 or 40 and make it easier to BQ. 5k paces Mile 1 6:20 Mile 2 7:03 Mile 3 6:53 Mile .15 1:02 TT 21:19 AP 6:46 7 miles before with the Chumps Mile 1 8:45 Mile 2 8:16 Mile 3 8:11 Mile 4 8:29 Mile 5 7:54 Mile 6 8:01 Mile 7 7:51 Mile 7.5 4:00 AP 7:59 TT 1:01:31 AP 8:12
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