Run The Woodlands 5K #123 Race Report
I finished in 28:58.52, which is my second straight 5K under 29 minutes now and was a course record for me at the Run The Woodlands series.
After a brief warm-up run of about a half of a mile, I really didn't feel like it was going to be my day at all. And, in fact, it turned out that I had some in the tank, but it wasn't anything like I felt the week before when I posted a 28:39 (but still not bad at 230!)
Couple of stats though (available because of the dilligence of Tom McDonough):
+ The 48 participants is the 26th race out of 123 that had 40 or more runners. (One of the regulars said that she thought the upshot in runners was from the results appearing in The Villager.)
+ The first three races in 2005 had 140 runners. This was 2 more than the first 10 races in the series from January-November 2000.
+ I joined the 20-race club and became only the 24th runner ever to do that. The following regulars added to their totals: Ann Leoni (70), Tom Pinney (57), Jeff Westergren (46), Debbie Tripp (37), Anne Westfall (34), Jon Freeman (31), Douglas Brandon (28), Kyle Horsting (22).
I started out fairly strong and knew that I was because I was ahead of Debbie Tripp for the first time in awhile. In a little bit of the downhill slope before the bridge at about three quarters of a mile, I passed another female runner, Trisha Blackburn from Pearland. My watch revealed 9:08.68.
Somewhere in mile 2, Trisha passed me, Mark Hedquist and a couple (Tara and Steve Wilson) and went on to finish in 28:30. I, in the meantime, ran through mile 2 in 9:28.41 (18:37.09 for 2 miles).
I did everything I could to push the pace a little bit, but I could feel myself not having all of the gas that I wanted. I passed Mark at some point and kept trying to push myself as I felt like I heard either him or Debbie on my heels. (Neither one of them would pass me.) But at about the 2.75-mile mark, I heard a pair of foot steps and they belonged to George Melder and his daughter, Tori. They started out slow and finished strong. When I talked to him afterwards, he had told me that he knew that I was running a fairly consistent pace and told his daughter to keep me in sight.
At some point on my watch, I could see the school zone speed limit sign (meaning that the turn into the school drive was coming up soon) and my watch revealed 26 minutes and change (which signalled that I might be able to get under 29 minutes again.) I pushed as much as I could. At the third "blue dot" (the marking on the course for the mile marker), I had a 9:29.11 mile.
I went hard as I could in the last .1 mile and covered that in 52.32 seconds. (52 seconds in a tenth of a mile is an 8:40 pace.) This was for a finish of 28:58.52!
I'll take it for my second best 5K ever!
After a brief warm-up run of about a half of a mile, I really didn't feel like it was going to be my day at all. And, in fact, it turned out that I had some in the tank, but it wasn't anything like I felt the week before when I posted a 28:39 (but still not bad at 230!)
Couple of stats though (available because of the dilligence of Tom McDonough):
+ The 48 participants is the 26th race out of 123 that had 40 or more runners. (One of the regulars said that she thought the upshot in runners was from the results appearing in The Villager.)
+ The first three races in 2005 had 140 runners. This was 2 more than the first 10 races in the series from January-November 2000.
+ I joined the 20-race club and became only the 24th runner ever to do that. The following regulars added to their totals: Ann Leoni (70), Tom Pinney (57), Jeff Westergren (46), Debbie Tripp (37), Anne Westfall (34), Jon Freeman (31), Douglas Brandon (28), Kyle Horsting (22).
I started out fairly strong and knew that I was because I was ahead of Debbie Tripp for the first time in awhile. In a little bit of the downhill slope before the bridge at about three quarters of a mile, I passed another female runner, Trisha Blackburn from Pearland. My watch revealed 9:08.68.
Somewhere in mile 2, Trisha passed me, Mark Hedquist and a couple (Tara and Steve Wilson) and went on to finish in 28:30. I, in the meantime, ran through mile 2 in 9:28.41 (18:37.09 for 2 miles).
I did everything I could to push the pace a little bit, but I could feel myself not having all of the gas that I wanted. I passed Mark at some point and kept trying to push myself as I felt like I heard either him or Debbie on my heels. (Neither one of them would pass me.) But at about the 2.75-mile mark, I heard a pair of foot steps and they belonged to George Melder and his daughter, Tori. They started out slow and finished strong. When I talked to him afterwards, he had told me that he knew that I was running a fairly consistent pace and told his daughter to keep me in sight.
At some point on my watch, I could see the school zone speed limit sign (meaning that the turn into the school drive was coming up soon) and my watch revealed 26 minutes and change (which signalled that I might be able to get under 29 minutes again.) I pushed as much as I could. At the third "blue dot" (the marking on the course for the mile marker), I had a 9:29.11 mile.
I went hard as I could in the last .1 mile and covered that in 52.32 seconds. (52 seconds in a tenth of a mile is an 8:40 pace.) This was for a finish of 28:58.52!
I'll take it for my second best 5K ever!
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