Now that was a nice surprise
Okay, so I ran the Get in Gear 10k this morning. I was going to treat this as a kinda tempo/progressive kinda thing. After a mile or so warm up I toed the start line and felt ready to go. I went out relatively easy and was surprised when my first mile split was 6:11. I kept myself relaxed, not trying to push too hard, knowing that once we crossed the river bridge we were going to be dealing with some serious headwind. Mile 2 was 6:15; still right where I wanted to be. Still felt very comfortable and more importantly, no Achilles pain. Mile 3 we crossed the bridge and slowed because of the wind. My 5k split was still a respectable 19:29. Now we headed back, into the wind and a little on the hilly side. Maintained my pace with mile 4 at 6:21. Sub 40 was in the bag and I started toying with the idea of sub 39:00. I turned up the effort just a bit, thinking I could whittle some more time off, but mile 5 was still around 6:20; I was getting gassed. We crossed back over the river, now with the wind at our backs, but still I could only muster a 6:15 pace. I managed some extra umph for the .2, logging a 5:34 pace. Final time: 39:08. Nice to know that my fitness level is bit higher than I thunk it was. I was running through Purgatory Park on Wednesday and got bit in the ass by a Rottweiler! At the end of the race today, saw this tiny, little man drink some water and than vomit; twice Co-worker at the running store is reading a book called "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." Had many, many customers today looking for cold weather gear for Lake Minnetonka Half Marathon tomorrow morning. (Forecast is sub 30 windchill) I wanted to ask them, "What the hell did you wear all winter?" Obvious treadmill junkies!
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