50′th Birthday Run

I turned 50 today. So to celebrate my new age group I went to the Woodruff HS. track and attempted a 5K (after 2 miles of warm up).

It was very cool but somewhat windy. How it went: 7:36, 7:41 (15:17) but I was really starting to hurt; in fact I couldn’t finish the 9′th lap and had to walk. I manage to recover and get going again but by then I had lost too much time; mile 3 came at 24:07 (8:50 3′rd mile) and I finished in 25:04.

I cooled down a bit.

What was more unusual was that there was a large flock of geese around the track; I imagined them to be a cheering section.

I looked at my old journals and it turns out that I was almost always 30-60 seconds on a solo time trial than I was in a race, even 10-11 years ago. That was the case here. I suppose that is why I like races; I use others to pull me along, and I suppose that I do the same for them.

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