Seal Beach, CA
Run: 38:16 ( 6:10 per mile avg)
Run: 38:16 ( 6:10 per mile avg)
My goal was to try and hold a 6:03 pace and finish with a 37:30. I have been practicing running right at my LT threshold pace during my weekly Busters 5 Mile Group Run's, and this was the final test to see if I could do it for a full 10k and subsequently at Wildflower in 2 weeks.
Unfortunately things didn't go as planned. I was anxious the entire night before and couldn't get to sleep until around midnight. When i woke up at 5am to eat I felt "off". I was hoping this feeling would go away as it came closer to race time.
The gun went off and I had to duck and weave through the crowd to find some running room. things opened up at the 5k turnaround point and I found two runners that were holding the same pace as me. We were all hoping for a sub 38 min. We stayed together up until the start of mile 4.5 where things started to fall apart. My pace dropped to my half marathon pace, and I felt like CRAP. One of the guys pulled ahead, and the other one dropped back even further. I was running by myself. Around mile 5.5 one of the guys i was talking to at the start of the race came up behind me, and motivated me to push a little harder. I was able to pick my pace back up for the last bit of the race, but it was almost impossible because we had to run around all the 5k walkers that were finishing around the same time.
Not the best performance, but I did PR for my 10k, ended up 12th out of 1846 athletes, and finished 6th in my AG.
Below is a breakdown of my splits.
Unfortunately things didn't go as planned. I was anxious the entire night before and couldn't get to sleep until around midnight. When i woke up at 5am to eat I felt "off". I was hoping this feeling would go away as it came closer to race time.
The gun went off and I had to duck and weave through the crowd to find some running room. things opened up at the 5k turnaround point and I found two runners that were holding the same pace as me. We were all hoping for a sub 38 min. We stayed together up until the start of mile 4.5 where things started to fall apart. My pace dropped to my half marathon pace, and I felt like CRAP. One of the guys pulled ahead, and the other one dropped back even further. I was running by myself. Around mile 5.5 one of the guys i was talking to at the start of the race came up behind me, and motivated me to push a little harder. I was able to pick my pace back up for the last bit of the race, but it was almost impossible because we had to run around all the 5k walkers that were finishing around the same time.
Not the best performance, but I did PR for my 10k, ended up 12th out of 1846 athletes, and finished 6th in my AG.
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