The Race for the Cure 5K was a lot of fun, but my 23:15 goal (7:30 mile pace) remains unachieved. This year we registered for the non-competitive race and it turns out we did the competitive one last year. The difference was apparently only about 15,000 participants. :)

I was relatively close to the starting line and it was a good thirty seconds after the start before I could even run at all. I hit the first mile split at 7:15. Not bad at all, I thought, considering the slow start and weaving through the crowd.

I needed to keep up roughly the same pace for the second mile, but a stomach cramp slowed me to a crawl. I knew I was in even more trouble when the rolling hills started. The second mile split came at 16:30, or 2:03 behind my goal pace.

Over the last 1.1 miles I picked up the pace and only ended up losing another 32 seconds compared to my goal. I crossed the finish line at 25:50 which is an average pace of 8:20. That's not a time I can be proud of, but at least I have the good excuse of being sick for over a week before the race :) Seriously though, I don't think I could have run any faster under the circumstances, so I can't be too disappointed with how the race turned out.

Going forward, I clearly need to run more mileage and cross-train more often. Another thing I need to mix in are some morning runs, hill runs, and runs on pavement since I usually run in the evening on relatively flat trails. I definitely felt weird running on pavement in the race. With 25:50 as my baseline for 2007, it should be pretty easy to improve a lot in my next few races.

Posted by JoshC at June 11, 2007 7:25 PM

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