This was not a particularly difficult race — just heading out, a few turns, and heading back on a different street. My watch time (which was very accurate to real time) showed 1:04:01 – a little over a minute better than my previous best 10K. I love new personal records (PR).<\/p>\n
The official time shown for me was 1:04:51 – a full 50 seconds from gun until I shuffled my way to the starting line. The start was not very organized, and the mile signs were not well marked either. A few of our gang did better than I (under an hour for two of them), and the rest were a bit behind me. In the middle is fine… I even ran into a friend \/ neighbor midway on the course. We ran together for a bit until I realized that his pace would kill me so I wisely slowed down.<\/p>\n
Heading out, the road was one really long, slow uphill climb. A right turn changed that and quickly headed down hill to make up for all of the elevation in a couple of hundred yards. The remaining course was fairly flat. I only found that the fifth and early sixth mile were difficult, then I regained my legs to finish strong.<\/p>\n
I have been very conscientious of my pace lately (thanks to the pace alarm on my watch), and know that if I hit a mile marker well under my time that I’m pretty much screwed until I can slow down and recover. During one weekday run, we ran 3 miles. My normal pace is between 10:30 and 10:45 for the first mile, then closer to 10 for the second. We hit one mile at 9:30 and finished in about 28 minutes (9:20 pace). I was dead for the next two days… I think I’ll keep to my 10 – 10:30 pace for a while!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This was not a particularly difficult race — just heading out, a few turns, and heading back on a different street. My watch time (which was very accurate to real time) showed 1:04:01 – a little over a minute better than my previous best 10K. I love new personal records (PR). The official time shown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carytown-10k"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39P1R-2S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}