Well, the first real race of my career is in the book and I would say it was a success. I really feel like the experience is going to pay off down the road. I had no idea how much human traffic there would be in a race like this. There were almost 7000 finishers in the race and we were all crammed together like cattle at the beginning. As soon as the horn went off to start the race everyone crowded up even more. It took a little over a minute to even get to the starting line! On to the race . . . The first mile was slower than I would have liked to run because I spent the entire time trying to weave in a and out of the crowd. After the first mile (in just over 8 minutes), I moved over to the sidewalk where I could pretty much determine my own pace, be it faster or slower than the crowd. I ran the race pretty hard and was pretty spent afterwards, but the feeling of finishing my first race and finishing hard was great. My final time was 21:56 and you can click here to see all of my stats from the Anthem 5k. The 10k in a couple of weeks should provide better preparation for the marathon as with more distance, comes more importance on pace regulation. Anyway, time to turn my mind to this week’s training and 17 miles coming up Saturday!
March 3, 2008...7:17 am
3/1/2008 – Race 1
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March 10, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Get hot on the Blog Man!