My 10 mile run turned out to be great saturday morning! Want to know how to run 10 miles faster then you have ever ran before? Go to a park where every local college cross country team is at preparing for a race. They were EVERYWHERE! I found myself speeding up whenever I passed a large group of college kids. I completed 10 miles in 1:50! Again, I am not 100% sure 10 miles is accurate - the loop I run is either 2.3 or 2.5 miles. Either way the run was awesome! I definitely need a new pair of sneakers and I need to get them ASAP!
Today I decided to run the SEFCU 5k. I didn't pre-register which meant no tshirt (booooo!). The weather was perfect - 60s and cloudy. Mile 1 was a bit of an incline - according to my watch I finished the 1st mile in 10:20. 2nd mile was downhill which is always good. After we passed the mile 2 marker it was pretty much all uphill!!! It was a long gradual incline. It sucked but I ran the entire time and I was passing people! Once I saw the finish line I started sprinting. According to my watch I finished in 31:39 - can we say PR!!?? Unfortunately the race was not chip timed and web is showing my time as 31:56 - grrrrr those 20 seconds mean a lot to me LOL. I am going by my watch - I know I started it the second I passed the start and stopped it the second I crossed the finish line. I planned on taking this race easy - HA!
I wanted to thank everyone for their support on my training plan. I think I am going to run 13 miles next weekend and then drop it down after that.
Buffalo Marathon Race Report
8 hours ago
Great time and yay for you for keeping up with the cross country kids!
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteArgh, that's annoying when your time doesn't match the "official" time. I say you know what your time was though, so count it as your PR!
ReplyDeletethe "official" time must have been a gun start time or something, not when you crossed start. hate it when that happens.
ReplyDeletestill, great race! and good time on the 10 miler! way to go amanda!