Yates City 5K 2009

Workout notes: 2 mile warm up, 5K run in 24:07, 1 mile cool down walk.

Basically, this was a small race (only 39 runners) and I finished 12′th; 3rd in the 40-49 age group. Yes, I have only 1 week left in this age group, but I would have been an even more distant 3rd in 50 and up.

The course starts on the main street (good traffic control), turns down a side street and takes you outside of the small town past some corn fields, right past more fields, then right again on a road that takes you to the highway that takes you back into town.

I didn’t feel great at the start though I did have a good warm up and it was reasonably cool (60 F, 80 percent humidity).

The first mile was marked and I took that in 7:42; I was trying to relax and not go out too fast; there was this guy in an orange shirt, a guy in the Rock Island 1999 50K shirt, a young woman and a male kid that I was tracking. I move past them at mile one and we made the turn. Then came the uphill at around mile 2; it was about 800 meters long and gradual; I was able to work up that and had something left to push.

Then came the final turn back into the town; I had about .5 miles to go. I was trying to pick up the pace as I didn’t feel THAT bad; it was sort of a 10k-ish kind of pain. But I didn’t have that pick up; I mostly kept from slowing way down. The younger woman nailed me with a kick in the last 100 meters or so and beat me by 3 seconds.

So, this season’s best: 24:00 (late May), 24:09 (last week), 24:07 (this week). I am starting to get annoyed. I can’t break out of this 24 rut…then again I am not running enough to do so.

So this is the current record:

March 28 5K : 24:41
April 12: muddy 100 miler in 47:55 (”staged” style)
April 25 5K: 26:30 (Wildlife Prairie Park)

9 May 5K 24:29 5K
17 May Marathon walk 5:14:26
23 May 5K 25:40
25 May 4 mile 31:58

30 May 5K: 24:00 (blankey-blank-blank!!!)
6 June: 24 hour, 66 miles (50 miles in 12:46)
20 June: 15K in 1:27:23 (just wanted to finish without walking)

(9 July: 6:42 mile (downhill)

18 July: 5K in 24:59
(22 July: 1600 track in 7:03, solo)
2 August: 12 hour trail (11:36 for 29.3 rocky trail miles)
(5 August: 1600 track in 7:19)
8 August: 5K in 27:21 (grass)
11 August: 5K in 26:30 (track, after 800 in 3:18)
15 August: 5K in 24:09
22 August: 5K in 24:07

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