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Evergreen Town Race 10k PR BY 2 MINUTES
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Evergreen Town Race 10k PR BY 2 MINUTES - Run10k
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Comments: As I said, I entered this race fatigued. I knew that my fitness level was high, but I needed to overcome my tired body and mind. There is something that happens, however when the race number is pinned on! I can't explain it but, everything changes once the number is on. I ran the fist mile in 5:17 and had to really try not to go out too fast. After the first mile I settled down and got passed by a few people who looked like they could be in my age group. I let them go. I knew that there were a few really good runners behind me who were also in my age group so I just tried to run my race and to keep them behind me. I got through mile 3 in about 16:30 and decided to try and relax through mile 4. I think this was good because I felt like I was getting stronger on mile 5 and I was realing in some of the runners ahead of me. At around mile 5.5 I passed one of the guys in my AG who was ahead of me. I kept running as smoothly as I could and both of my feet had large blisters. As I neared mile 6 I dropped another guy and noticed that the guy who had been winning my age group was losing his form. I decided to surge and catch him. With less than .2 miles to go I decided to run past him. He appeared to want to give me a fight for the position, but quickly gave up. I cruised in to an age group win and a PR by 2 minutes. What would you do differently?: I wish I knew I was so close to breaking 35 minutes, I probably wouldn't have backed off on mile 4.  Post race
Warm down: Beers What limited your ability to perform faster: Fatigue, warm day too. Event comments: Fast course and a great race. This was my 25th race of the year and one of my goals this season was to go under 37 minutes in a 10K. To get WAY under 36 minutes was a total surprise! Last updated: 2008-07-09 12:00 AM
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 2008-08-04 1:38 AM |
Expert  622   Conifer, Colorado |  Subject: Evergreen Town Race 10k PR BY 2 MINUTES |
| 2008-08-04 9:47 PM in reply to: #1579350 |
Extreme Veteran 694 Highlands Ranch, Colorado | Subject: RE: Evergreen Town Race 10k PR BY 2 MINUTES Nice race, great strategy sounds like. Maybe you shouldn't taper for IM? Thought about running this one but it didn't work out... |
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Slept at Dillard's house last night... Let me just say that the last week has been tough. I have had some big training days on very little sleep (because of my move to vail). In the 3 days leading up to this race I bricked The Copper Triangle which is 80 miles with 6000 ft. of ascent, and the next day I ran a 14 mile trail run with about 4500 feet of ascent... Saturday was brutal too. I came down to Denver without any sleep, ran 6.5 with my run group, rode 25 with dills and then bricked 6 hard miles too... drank beers and finally got a little sleep. Anyway, I was wiped out before I even toed the starting line.
Walked up the hill to the starting line.