Running race 29:47 [3] 3.1 mi (9:36 / mi)
(injured) shoes: Asics Noosa FF (Black)
@ Twinbrook
Interfaith Works, Race to Empower 5K.
I promised Cindy that I'd run the race if I wasn't working and I wasn't scheduled to be at the hospital, but it's always hard to turn over the legs the day after a 12 hour shift. I have to flush all the edematous fluid from my legs first which usually takes a mile or two. Also, my foot still hurts from Wed, but it goes away after warming up so I tried to baby it and give it time to loosen up a bit. I'll mark it as an injury in case it lasts for months - I can never tell anymore with these things. (I do have a slight limp at times - it aches where the 5th metatarsal joins some tendons or something at the proximal end).
I'm not happy with my Garmin which measured the course short: 1, 1, 0.97 miles and these are the splits.
11:22 / 9:41 / 8:45
I let the whole field pass me by in the first mile, children, families, dogs, the mailman (lol.). And then I slowly picked it up based on my legs and my foot. I wasn't tracking the time too closely, but when I turned the final corner and saw the clock well past the 29 minute mark, I was like crap! I'm not going to break 30 which would be a bruise to the ego, so I sprinted to the end even though I may have compromised the foot.