It was a chilly morning, 35 degrees, as my two oldest daughters and I made our way to West Park in White Bear Lake. After a 10 minute warm-up I headed to the start line and waited 10 minutes for the race to start, plenty of time to cool down on this chilly morning.
As the race started I tried to find a good pace to settle into, I haven't run a 5k since May and haven't been doing any 5k tempo runs, I felt like I found a good pace and as I hit the mile mark I glanced down at my watch and saw 6:22 on it. A little faster than I had thought. I think it got into my head as my next mile was 7:00. I'm not sure why I slowed up so much and tried to pick it up again over the final 1.1 miles which I covered in 7:19 for a finish time of 20:41.
The sub-20 5k remains an elusive dream at this point.
My finish was good enough for 2nd place in the male 40-49 age group. I'll take that!
I didn't run in costume but some members from our church did...
Nice Work, Neil! We are still planning on running Fast Before the Feast, are you in?
Posted by: Brian | October 31, 2010 at 07:33 PM
Yeah were in. Should be fun.
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Posted by: Neil Craigan | October 31, 2010 at 07:41 PM