Waverly Nails Willis Wildkat 5K
The red-headed princess did pretty good this morning. I'll have to go back and look, but it was definitely one of her better 5K times today and a nice improvement from Thanksgiving Day.
The goal today at the Willis Wilkdat 5K? A nice, steady pace without stopping to walk. I kept telling her that if she felt like she needed to to try and back off the pace a little bit.
Willis track and cross country coach Dana Fossmo really does a nice job with this event and it is too bad more people don't attend it. I'm sure that the rain - and the threat of more of it - kept some people away, but it didn't rain the entire time we were on the course.
Waverly finished this morning in 36:27.14 -- which is just 31 seconds off of her PR time of 35:56 at the Rockets Run 5K the first Sunday of 2006 - a week before her half marathon finish. Even at Run Thru The Woods three weeks ago, she was a couple of seconds under 37 minutes for just three miles.
And, no, she's not on steroids!
Here were her splits:
Mile 1 -- 11:29.93
Mile 2 -- 12:00.62
Last 1.1 -- 12:56.59
Ken Johnson and John Slate from the Seven Hills Running Club were also in attendance today. John won the 50-59 age group while Ken won his. He won't tell anybody also that he was the only one in his division today either. :)
Actually, Ken ran well today. He was in the 32s. We had him in sight for a good bit of the first mile, but the plan was in no way to try and catch him. Waverly's just not there yet.
Jacob Mazone of Spring won the race in 16:59 - a PR for him at age 45.
Willis' Elizabeth Slaughter, who runs for Texas A&M, won the female division in 19-and-change. I talked to her after our finish and she went over and said a few words to Waverly to encourage her. I really appreciated that.
I got a chance to meet the Willis ISD superintendent Brian Zemlicka. Nice guy.
Time for a nap and then I'll go to the gym and keep putting more time and miles on the treadmill. I've got to enlarge that minute-per-mile gap at TIR over Bill, and Sarah over Doug. Especially since we don't know who's going to take the hit against Kim's 6-minute miles.
The goal today at the Willis Wilkdat 5K? A nice, steady pace without stopping to walk. I kept telling her that if she felt like she needed to to try and back off the pace a little bit.
Willis track and cross country coach Dana Fossmo really does a nice job with this event and it is too bad more people don't attend it. I'm sure that the rain - and the threat of more of it - kept some people away, but it didn't rain the entire time we were on the course.
Waverly finished this morning in 36:27.14 -- which is just 31 seconds off of her PR time of 35:56 at the Rockets Run 5K the first Sunday of 2006 - a week before her half marathon finish. Even at Run Thru The Woods three weeks ago, she was a couple of seconds under 37 minutes for just three miles.
And, no, she's not on steroids!
Here were her splits:
Mile 1 -- 11:29.93
Mile 2 -- 12:00.62
Last 1.1 -- 12:56.59
Ken Johnson and John Slate from the Seven Hills Running Club were also in attendance today. John won the 50-59 age group while Ken won his. He won't tell anybody also that he was the only one in his division today either. :)
Actually, Ken ran well today. He was in the 32s. We had him in sight for a good bit of the first mile, but the plan was in no way to try and catch him. Waverly's just not there yet.
Jacob Mazone of Spring won the race in 16:59 - a PR for him at age 45.
Willis' Elizabeth Slaughter, who runs for Texas A&M, won the female division in 19-and-change. I talked to her after our finish and she went over and said a few words to Waverly to encourage her. I really appreciated that.
I got a chance to meet the Willis ISD superintendent Brian Zemlicka. Nice guy.
Time for a nap and then I'll go to the gym and keep putting more time and miles on the treadmill. I've got to enlarge that minute-per-mile gap at TIR over Bill, and Sarah over Doug. Especially since we don't know who's going to take the hit against Kim's 6-minute miles.
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