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YMCA Sleigh Bell 5k

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Location:

Lake Orion,MI,

Member Since:

Dec 28, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs

16:52 Phillies Charities 5k (2016)

35:52 Beach to Beacon 10k (2015)

58:10 Broad Street 10 Mile (2016)

1:16:02 Philadelphia Rock and Roll Half Marathon (2015)

2:46:54 Philadelphia Marathon (2015)

Personal:

I live in Michigan with my wife, Megan, and our boys, Charlie and Sawyer. I started running in September 2010.

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Race: YMCA Sleigh Bell 5k (3.1 Miles) 00:19:23, Place overall: 12, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.400.000.003.107.50

Last year I ran this race as my first 5k @ 6:55 average pace, which within the year became marathon pace. I think that is the only year that gets to happen. 2.15 mile warm up, strides, and dynamic stretching. Took off behind the cross-country boys who were the "chase pack." Not sure if they were tired, running a lower-intensity workout, or what but, I passed them after mile 1 and they never caught back up.

Mile 1: 6:16

Mile 2: 6:13

Mile 3: 6:21

.10: 32.8 (5:33 pace)

Around mile 2 I recognized the heavy breathing of an old fellah from one of the earlier races. Bless his heart for moving that fast at 65? but he coughs and goes "hawah OK" After 6 or 7 of those I tried to dropped him; it was killing me. I ran the course at 3.07, so I kept running after the finish line until I hit 3.1.

2.25 mile cool down

 Good race for post-marathon, pre-basebuilding, slackerism.

Newton MV2 (Black) Miles: 5.25Newton Trainer 4 Miles: 2.25
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From rockness18 on Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 13:18:43 from 69.183.231.236

Nice run! My sister lives in West Lafayette and lives near campus housing. Great goals and improvement on your running blog- good luck with your upcoming races!

From SlowJoe on Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 18:12:26 from 69.131.141.92

So did you beat the hacking senior?

Nice race, especially one you're not all primed up for.

From Jason D on Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 18:39:08 from 24.1.80.94

Thanks, rockness. Is she a longtime resident or going to school? West Lafayette is nice. Lafayette, less so.

Joe: I dropped him around 2.5. I hate to poke fun at other runners, but it was so weird and I had the experience of déjà vu. Only I know he's been behind me in a 5k doing the same thing (so it's not technically)! It's like when you say something quickly and cough (like "cough jerk cough"), but he was clearly coughing "okay." I think he was just verbalizing what we all think at that point in the race "I'm okay."

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