Running long 46:50 [4] 5.0 mi (9:22 / mi)
shoes: Salomon SC3 Bl/Bl 3
Los Gatos Resolution Run. From LG HS up to the top of Lexington Dam and back. Finish 1st in M70, 69th overall. There were considerably fewer people than the last time I ran this race, 5 years ago (when I ran 43:21). Hadn't planned to run this race, so didn't ease off before hand and had the intention of just making this a brisk workout, not a race-effort run. Also haven't run as much as 5 miles in quite a while. Nice to come in first in my age category, though :-)
High 30's when we got there at 8:30 (plenty of parking), but no wind, so didn't seem so bad. Abandoned plans for warmer clothes and just wore O-pants, long-sleeve top (winter one) and golf gloves.
Ran with Todd Hancock for the first two miles, at his pace (he wanted high 10 mins/mile, but we were around 9:30 for the first half mile), then went ahead on my own, passing lots of people up the two big hills. Then cautiously down the hills (ice on the first one, loose gravel on the second), and finally ran pretty hard over the (slightly downhill) last two miles, approaching my times from 5 years ago.
Ran the mile from the 0.5 marker to the 1.5 marker (roughly the 4th mile of the run) in 811, so now I know I can still break 8 minutes for one mile ;-) Also, ran the backstretch 100m at the end of the race in 28 secs, which is 732/mi pace.
Finished 4 places and 30 secs behind Tammy Rose, who won a medal (maybe 2nd in F60), though I never saw her during the run.
---------------------------------- 2019 ----------------- 2014 -------------------------------------- 2013 run
600m -------------------------- 335 ----------------- ~314 ------- 1.5 laps on track -------- 305
Beginning of dirt trail ------- 659 (324) ------- 619 (305) -- by Forbes Mill ----------- 251
One mile mark -------------- wrong place ---- 856 (237) --------------------------------- 223 Tot 819
LG Trail 1.5 mi post ------- 1016 (317) ------- 913 (17)
LG Trail 1 mile post --------1545 (528) ------ 1402 (449) -------------------------------- 427 (from One mile mark)
LG Trail 1/2 mi post ------- 2043 (458) ------ 1853 (451) - slightly uphill ------------ 425
LG Trail 0 mile post ----------------------------- 2410 (517) - huge uphill -------------- 513
Top of dam ------------------ 2716 (633) ------ 2440 (30) --- turnaround -------------- 35 Tot 2300
LG Trail 1/2 mi post ------- 3153 (436) ------ 2844 (404) -------------------------------- 355
LG Trail 1 mile post ------- 3600 (407) ------ 3239 (355) -------------------------------- 353
LG Trail 1.5 mi post ------- 4005 (404)------- 3637 (358) -------------------------------- 358
Beginning of dirt trail ------ 4232 (226)------- 3805 (228) -------------------------------- 225
Finish ------------------------- 4650 (418) ------ 4321 (416) - incl 300m on track ----- 412 Tot 4124
[Race]
Running warm up/down 8:30 [2] 0.5 mi (17:00 / mi)
shoes: Salomon SC3 Bl/Bl 3
Cool down on the infield of the LG HS track.