Today marked the end of the racing season for me. It's been a pretty hard 2 months with a 30 mile relay contribution;marathon; half-marathon and 2 5k's and I was soo happy to see it all come to an end. The course seemed a bit long and my Garmin confirmed it. Garmin milage was 3.35 miles which explains my slow time. I definetly felt like I ran a better race than that.
This is one of my favorite races, as it is the High Schools x-country course and it brings back a lot of good memories of my own high school days. The past 3 years I've managed to finish 4th in every one. So of course I'd have to finish 4th again this year. It actualy looked pretty good for that to change with about half the race to go as I passed a couple of youngsters and started to chase after the leader. Oops. I probably should have waited a little longer. I faded badly the final mile and was once again delegated to 4th. My legs are definetly feeling the effects of a lot of hard miles the last month. There was just no second gear to turn to today.
1st mile 5:58
2nd mile 6:03
3rd mile 5:50
fianl .35 according to Garmin- 1:47
If the Garmin is correct I would have been very close to a P.R for a 5k if it had been the correct distance, but what can you do. I was very happy with my performance especially for an off road course. | 