Warm up/down 10:00 [2]
shoes: Asics 1120
Up and down the hill, and along the road for a bit. Probably inadequate...
Running race 34:22 [5] 5.0 mi (6:52 / mi) +130m 6:22 / mi
shoes: Asics 1120
A lesson in how not to pace a 5 mile race:
6'37, 6'13, 7'20, 7'11, 7'01
Speed endurance clearly lacking at the moment, which is no surprise.
Comfortable up the first hill off the start (+40m), second mile has a nice downhill stretch - bombed down the steeper bit and gained on everyone; it soon flattened out though. Surprised by the split at mile 2, but the two together meant average 4min/k pace, which seemed reasonable.
Then it became more of a battle, rolling ups and downs - the ups a lot more tricky when you've been running hard for a while! Slow drag up the hill at end of mile 3/start of 4 - split for 3 a fair bit slower than hoped, bit faster for mile 4, but (as I'd been warned) the worst hill was in the first half of mile 5. Worked hard, hoping to take advantage of the downhill into the finish, but this wasn't really steep enough for gravity to help much, and the legs didn't want to turn over any faster.
So a rare foray into road racing, and an interesting experiment. The climb-adjusted pace on here gives a time of just sub-32, which is reassuring.
Warm up/down 8:00 [1]
shoes: Asics 1120
Had to shoot off, so little warm down jog from the flat once I got back. Calf had stiffened up quite a bit immediately post-race, but feeling ok during this. Glutes a bit sore.
Now sneezing my head off again. :(