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Ran a 10k - Official Thread (5 Viewers)
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Juxtatarot
Footballguy
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
gianmarco
Footballguy
pbm107
Footballguy
Congrats on the sub 3 and PR, considering how low your HR was the first half of the race it is understandable that you ran a bit quick early on.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
sho nuff
Footballguy
Been a way from this for a while...various injuries and a schedule that has not been conducive to running (dealing with a now HS Freshman and ridiculous competitive marching band is nuts). Starting slowly to get my big butt back into gear...don't think I will run many races...but want to get back to where I had been as far as pace and running shape.
Come back and see grue is still killing it.
Congrats.
Come back and see grue is still killing it.
Congrats.
gianmarco
Footballguy
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
sho nuff
Footballguy
A long road ahead being older this time around. Ankles finally feeling normal, sinuses clear and no surgery for them in sight. A small break between marching band season and winter drum line for my son will hopefully get me into a rhythm before the kids activities take over our lives again.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
A lot of guys here go for a run while their kids are doing their activities. Unless, of course, you love watching...
The Iguana
Footballguy
That was fun and went faster than I expected. All things considered, I'm pretty happy with the results. Looking forward to doing another one in the future to see what I'm capable of.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Thanks. Scaling it back next year. No way am I doing 20 again. This year was calmer with a projected 12. Not going to burn myself out again.Welcome back. Time to sign up for another 42 races.
Great race!
El Floppo
Footballguy
I was coming in to wish any nyc marathoners good luck tomorrow... and then see gru go beast mode. Ah-freaking-making.. 
anyways...gl nycers! Going to be great weather tomorrow- break some legs!
my running stopped, as the three locals all got busy and absent over the couple months of summer -but our group started up again last week with few miles and will hopefully keep up the Sunday runs, with a maybe goal of nyc 1/2 in March. We all signed up for the lottery.
anyways...gl nycers! Going to be great weather tomorrow- break some legs!
my running stopped, as the three locals all got busy and absent over the couple months of summer -but our group started up again last week with few miles and will hopefully keep up the Sunday runs, with a maybe goal of nyc 1/2 in March. We all signed up for the lottery.
The Iguana
Footballguy
A little more detail... first about me for those that may have missed it - I turned 48 years old 4 weeks ago tomrrow. I'm like 5'11.5" after a little old man shrinkage and currently weigh about 223.5 - by all accounts officially obese still right now. I've lost about 9 pounds in Octobers so.. I haven't been running or even working out at all until about 7 weeks ago, then I rolled the crap out of my ankle and basically had 4 weeks to get ready when the swelling mostly went down. The longest run I've done in as long as I can remember was 2 Saturday's ago and was 8.7 miles at about an 11 min/mile average. I did run a 5 k at a 8:42 pace earlier this week.
So, all that said, I don't have full mile splits - my phone was registering a crappy gps signal at the start so I tried changing from strava to map my run to see if that would help. I also have on my fitbit HR and strava linked up with that but mapmyrun registered it as a 8.5 mile run and strava/fitbit only called it 11 miles - I DID THE WHOLE 13.1 PEOPLE!
As a note - before I hurt my ankle, I was wanting to see how close to 2 hours I could go, maybe break it. With then only a month basically to get ready, I decided that I'd be mostly satisfied with anything under 2:30 and recent runs put anything under 11 min/mile as the goal.
So, on to the race... I was in 'wave 3'. It was mostly empty when I got to it so I walked up toward the front of it but not all the way - new there would be people pushing more. Basically I was right just between the 2 guys with the 2:05 and 2:10 pace sticks for the half. By the time the fancy people go off and the first 2 waves are gone, it's about 8:10 when we are starting. Countdown goes and we are off. I settled into a comfortable jog - didn't want to do anything stupid but didn't want to be a chicken either. More people are passing me than I am passing and felt a little bad for being up as far as I was but I'm more or less keeping up with the majority of the people near me.
First mile marker arrives, look down at my stopwatch and it's about 9:45+/-. Definitely faster than I planned but didn't feel like I was doing anything crazy. 2nd mile marker arrives and I'm still under 10/mile. 3 - same and I'm feeling great. By this point mapmyrun had already gone a little flaky with its updates so I just ignored that little looked at the running clock on my wrist periodically.
Mile 4 and the math is still easy - clock read like 38 something. Mile 5, feeling strong. Mile 6 and then the 10K scoring marking and I'm on cloud nine. Semi-official 10K split online says 1:01:37. By this point I've been able to have a couple brief chats with folks, love the energy of the crowd and just floating along feeling great. Hit mile 7 and then the split between marathoners and the less crazy folks for the half and all is good. Couple of us halfers yell out wishing the full folks well and I crack a joke about the smart people obviously took the correct turn - I'm so clever!
Mile 8 clicks off and now the math is harder cause, you know it's over an hour and all so calculating to make sure I'm still under 10/mile is getting harder but I'm on pace. Mile 9 hits and I happily note to myself that we are about 70% done and feeling good. I also note to myself that I'm now in uncharted waters and further than I've run in who knows how long. We get to the 10 mile marker and I remark to those lucky enough to be near that it's now "just" a 5K to the finish. Shortly after that things started getting a little tougher.
About the 11 mile mark my breathing isn't as smooth and I'm starting to have to labor a bit but I'm still basically on pace. But there's a kid - probably like 15 that was in front of me, then walk and I passed him, then he went back in front, etc. about this point I am passing him as he's walking again and I look over and something like "come on, we've got this" and he picks it up and runs with me for awhile. I figure he should be thinking "that old fart shouldn't beat me", I'm thinking some combination of "come on kid, you can do it" and "I'm not letting this little turd beat me!" I left him behind a bit later when he walked through a water station and I just kept moving. If he ever passed me again, I didn't see it...
That said, about the time I passed the 12 mile marker I decided that 1.1 miles might as well be forever. At this point I had to concentrate a bit to keep my feet moving at pace. I actually had been ahead of the 2:10 pace runner for a long time. He caught/passed me about here and I used him as motivation to keep myself moving. Not sure if he was just ahead of me or behind me but I crossed the line, stopped my personal watch at 2:10:15 and was totally ecstatic. Got my official time from the tent as 2:10:22 and I'm still kind of waiting on it to sink in.
It was some combination of both inspiring and depressing to have a couple of marathoners pass me in the last 1/2 mile of the race but those guys are nuts. Pretty sure my official time is faster than the fastest full finisher but just barely if it is.
I'm sure I've got at least 10 minutes in me - totally want to break 2 hours next time out!
Glad everyone had good races. Mine not so good. Lost a Bose earbud. Missed the final cutoff 2 miles from the finish by minutes. Stuck my truck and have been waiting on a tow truck for 2 hours. Truck is about 2 feet from a 1000 to 2000 ft drop off. Can’t see the bottom where it would stop but I think it’s in another county. Trying to enjoy the 50 miles views
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
Congrats again! When will the next race be? Are you going to run through the winter?
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The Iguana
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I've signed up for a 5K "series" with a friend of mine - first one is in 2 weeks, 2nd one in mid December, 3rd on in early January - figure those will keep me moving during the winter. Plan for winter is a combination of running when nice enough and going to the "crossfit fitness" classes at work - they are typically cardio centric workouts - lots of assault bike, rowing, running, etc.
Next half will be in the spring - there's like 4 races relatively close to me between mid April and mid May - I'll sign up for one of those. Not sure which one yet.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
The Iguana
Footballguy
That's one of the options and a high chance I do that. There's a couple people at work that have said they will sign up to and be kind of an accountability group / running club which would always be good to have. I've actually been a volunteer for that one a couple times. Between seeing it and talking to others, the only problem with it is that if you aren't in the front, then you are running with 8 billion of your closest friends and the amount of bobbing, weaving and dodging you do can be a bit of a pain.
The good part is that it is also nice and flat plus you get to run around the track which is always fun.
Sand
Footballguy
Haven't seen you post here in a while. Maybe just missed them. Great to see you are at it.
With your backstory and limited training, the race you ran today was seriously outstanding. A 2:10 is one helluva start to a running career. Can’t remember if you have a background in running from your younger days, but your time was really, really good.A little more detail... first about me for those that may have missed it - I turned 48 years old 4 weeks ago tomrrow. I'm like 5'11.5" after a little old man shrinkage and currently weigh about 223.5 - by all accounts officially obese still right now. I've lost about 9 pounds in Octobers so.. I haven't been running or even working out at all until about 7 weeks ago, then I rolled the crap out of my ankle and basically had 4 weeks to get ready when the swelling mostly went down. The longest run I've done in as long as I can remember was 2 Saturday's ago and was 8.7 miles at about an 11 min/mile average. I did run a 5 k at a 8:42 pace earlier this week.
So, all that said, I don't have full mile splits - my phone was registering a crappy gps signal at the start so I tried changing from strava to map my run to see if that would help. I also have on my fitbit HR and strava linked up with that but mapmyrun registered it as a 8.5 mile run and strava/fitbit only called it 11 miles - I DID THE WHOLE 13.1 PEOPLE!
As a note - before I hurt my ankle, I was wanting to see how close to 2 hours I could go, maybe break it. With then only a month basically to get ready, I decided that I'd be mostly satisfied with anything under 2:30 and recent runs put anything under 11 min/mile as the goal.
So, on to the race... I was in 'wave 3'. It was mostly empty when I got to it so I walked up toward the front of it but not all the way - new there would be people pushing more. Basically I was right just between the 2 guys with the 2:05 and 2:10 pace sticks for the half. By the time the fancy people go off and the first 2 waves are gone, it's about 8:10 when we are starting. Countdown goes and we are off. I settled into a comfortable jog - didn't want to do anything stupid but didn't want to be a chicken either. More people are passing me than I am passing and felt a little bad for being up as far as I was but I'm more or less keeping up with the majority of the people near me.
First mile marker arrives, look down at my stopwatch and it's about 9:45+/-. Definitely faster than I planned but didn't feel like I was doing anything crazy. 2nd mile marker arrives and I'm still under 10/mile. 3 - same and I'm feeling great. By this point mapmyrun had already gone a little flaky with its updates so I just ignored that little looked at the running clock on my wrist periodically.
Mile 4 and the math is still easy - clock read like 38 something. Mile 5, feeling strong. Mile 6 and then the 10K scoring marking and I'm on cloud nine. Semi-official 10K split online says 1:01:37. By this point I've been able to have a couple brief chats with folks, love the energy of the crowd and just floating along feeling great. Hit mile 7 and then the split between marathoners and the less crazy folks for the half and all is good. Couple of us halfers yell out wishing the full folks well and I crack a joke about the smart people obviously took the correct turn - I'm so clever!
Mile 8 clicks off and now the math is harder cause, you know it's over an hour and all so calculating to make sure I'm still under 10/mile is getting harder but I'm on pace. Mile 9 hits and I happily note to myself that we are about 70% done and feeling good. I also note to myself that I'm now in uncharted waters and further than I've run in who knows how long. We get to the 10 mile marker and I remark to those lucky enough to be near that it's now "just" a 5K to the finish. Shortly after that things started getting a little tougher.
About the 11 mile mark my breathing isn't as smooth and I'm starting to have to labor a bit but I'm still basically on pace. But there's a kid - probably like 15 that was in front of me, then walk and I passed him, then he went back in front, etc. about this point I am passing him as he's walking again and I look over and something like "come on, we've got this" and he picks it up and runs with me for awhile. I figure he should be thinking "that old fart shouldn't beat me", I'm thinking some combination of "come on kid, you can do it" and "I'm not letting this little turd beat me!" I left him behind a bit later when he walked through a water station and I just kept moving. If he ever passed me again, I didn't see it...
That said, about the time I passed the 12 mile marker I decided that 1.1 miles might as well be forever. At this point I had to concentrate a bit to keep my feet moving at pace. I actually had been ahead of the 2:10 pace runner for a long time. He caught/passed me about here and I used him as motivation to keep myself moving. Not sure if he was just ahead of me or behind me but I crossed the line, stopped my personal watch at 2:10:15 and was totally ecstatic. Got my official time from the tent as 2:10:22 and I'm still kind of waiting on it to sink in.
It was some combination of both inspiring and depressing to have a couple of marathoners pass me in the last 1/2 mile of the race but those guys are nuts. Pretty sure my official time is faster than the fastest full finisher but just barely if it is.
I'm sure I've got at least 10 minutes in me - totally want to break 2 hours next time out!
Judging by your posts today, it is clear you are proud of yourself. And you should be. And everyone here is proud and happy for you as well.
You did awesome.
gruecd
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
Congrats!!!A little more detail... first about me for those that may have missed it - I turned 48 years old 4 weeks ago tomrrow. I'm like 5'11.5" after a little old man shrinkage and currently weigh about 223.5 - by all accounts officially obese still right now. I've lost about 9 pounds in Octobers so.. I haven't been running or even working out at all until about 7 weeks ago, then I rolled the crap out of my ankle and basically had 4 weeks to get ready when the swelling mostly went down. The longest run I've done in as long as I can remember was 2 Saturday's ago and was 8.7 miles at about an 11 min/mile average. I did run a 5 k at a 8:42 pace earlier this week.
So, all that said, I don't have full mile splits - my phone was registering a crappy gps signal at the start so I tried changing from strava to map my run to see if that would help. I also have on my fitbit HR and strava linked up with that but mapmyrun registered it as a 8.5 mile run and strava/fitbit only called it 11 miles - I DID THE WHOLE 13.1 PEOPLE!
As a note - before I hurt my ankle, I was wanting to see how close to 2 hours I could go, maybe break it. With then only a month basically to get ready, I decided that I'd be mostly satisfied with anything under 2:30 and recent runs put anything under 11 min/mile as the goal.
So, on to the race... I was in 'wave 3'. It was mostly empty when I got to it so I walked up toward the front of it but not all the way - new there would be people pushing more. Basically I was right just between the 2 guys with the 2:05 and 2:10 pace sticks for the half. By the time the fancy people go off and the first 2 waves are gone, it's about 8:10 when we are starting. Countdown goes and we are off. I settled into a comfortable jog - didn't want to do anything stupid but didn't want to be a chicken either. More people are passing me than I am passing and felt a little bad for being up as far as I was but I'm more or less keeping up with the majority of the people near me.
First mile marker arrives, look down at my stopwatch and it's about 9:45+/-. Definitely faster than I planned but didn't feel like I was doing anything crazy. 2nd mile marker arrives and I'm still under 10/mile. 3 - same and I'm feeling great. By this point mapmyrun had already gone a little flaky with its updates so I just ignored that little looked at the running clock on my wrist periodically.
Mile 4 and the math is still easy - clock read like 38 something. Mile 5, feeling strong. Mile 6 and then the 10K scoring marking and I'm on cloud nine. Semi-official 10K split online says 1:01:37. By this point I've been able to have a couple brief chats with folks, love the energy of the crowd and just floating along feeling great. Hit mile 7 and then the split between marathoners and the less crazy folks for the half and all is good. Couple of us halfers yell out wishing the full folks well and I crack a joke about the smart people obviously took the correct turn - I'm so clever!
Mile 8 clicks off and now the math is harder cause, you know it's over an hour and all so calculating to make sure I'm still under 10/mile is getting harder but I'm on pace. Mile 9 hits and I happily note to myself that we are about 70% done and feeling good. I also note to myself that I'm now in uncharted waters and further than I've run in who knows how long. We get to the 10 mile marker and I remark to those lucky enough to be near that it's now "just" a 5K to the finish. Shortly after that things started getting a little tougher.
About the 11 mile mark my breathing isn't as smooth and I'm starting to have to labor a bit but I'm still basically on pace. But there's a kid - probably like 15 that was in front of me, then walk and I passed him, then he went back in front, etc. about this point I am passing him as he's walking again and I look over and something like "come on, we've got this" and he picks it up and runs with me for awhile. I figure he should be thinking "that old fart shouldn't beat me", I'm thinking some combination of "come on kid, you can do it" and "I'm not letting this little turd beat me!" I left him behind a bit later when he walked through a water station and I just kept moving. If he ever passed me again, I didn't see it...
That said, about the time I passed the 12 mile marker I decided that 1.1 miles might as well be forever. At this point I had to concentrate a bit to keep my feet moving at pace. I actually had been ahead of the 2:10 pace runner for a long time. He caught/passed me about here and I used him as motivation to keep myself moving. Not sure if he was just ahead of me or behind me but I crossed the line, stopped my personal watch at 2:10:15 and was totally ecstatic. Got my official time from the tent as 2:10:22 and I'm still kind of waiting on it to sink in.
It was some combination of both inspiring and depressing to have a couple of marathoners pass me in the last 1/2 mile of the race but those guys are nuts. Pretty sure my official time is faster than the fastest full finisher but just barely if it is.
I'm sure I've got at least 10 minutes in me - totally want to break 2 hours next time out!
bushdocda
Footballguy
#### man. I guess you could have torn a torn calf muscle (paging thread Doctor). Get another pro to check you out. Good luck J.
The Iguana
Footballguy
Thanks. Nice work. I'm pretty sure you had to have run past me near the finish - I was standing right at the final corner about the time you would have been finishing. Was trying to see if I could pick you out and give you a little personal cheer around that last corner but I missed you. Not sure what name, if any you had on your bib but was trying to watch at about the time I knew you would be coming through.
The Iguana
Footballguy
I did toss out a couple of random "go gru's" just in case a couple of the people passing were you.
The Iguana
Footballguy
I was basically an average XC and middle distance track runner in high school. 30 years ago I ran an 18 minute 5k and a 2:03 half mile. ?
I've run on and off - more off than on - since then. I've done a few 5K's over the years but mostly just run for fun/fitness but nothing at all really lately. Had dinner and drinks with a friend and former coworker about 6 months ago and we talked about doing this race but then dropped the ball before finally signing up with a little less time to prepare than we were supposed to.
JShare87
Footballguy
I do not think it is my calf. It is my lower left leg on the outside. The pain is on the front and outside of my leg. It also hurts where my foot meets my ankle, front and center of my leg. I just find it hard to believe it’s a shin splint.
gianmarco
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
I was wearing all bright orange....singlet, arm warmers, and shoes. I had “Chad” on my bib.
bushdocda
Footballguy
Just 1.
Keitany flying so fast and Shalene now working up to 3rd.
Cant believe the lead men still wearing those hats.
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Juxtatarot
Footballguy
Money? I noticed Shalene’s had the Nike swoosh.JShare87 said:
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
Brony
Footballguy
Less than a second from 1st in the AG. Grrr!
Not a satisfying time, but I ran an OK race... Didn't go out too fast and was on the brink of really overexerting the lungs for most of the race which is right where I wanted to be. GPS was wonky so I only have the mile markers which went
6:28
13:17
20:00
Probably need to subtract 20 seconds off those times for the delayed start.
The post mortum might suggest I was too fast mile 1 and too slow the rest, but that wind out of the south was brutal. Like 30 mph in your face on Clark and Michigan. A couple of times I went to pick up the pace and broke out of the pack and got smacked in the face with wind. I didn't fight it and settled back into the pack. Based on the starting points and tunnels, 2 miles were into wind and 1 ish was on lower Wacker.
I had a good amount left in the tank at the finish, so should have pushed harder mile 3. I was too busy checking out the scenery I guess. It was fun to finish in Grant Park near Buckingham fountain.
I won't do this race again. Too many people and too early. I get that some people enjoy the vibe of running with tons of other runners but the start is too tough to find your zone.
So I can wound up doing the 5k on wave 1 and did another 5k with wife and kids in wave 2 too. We walked. Youngest ran with me for the last 1/3 mile.
The hot chocolate was actually pretty good afterwards so that was nice. Other logistics worked out fine.
Final 20:40
63rd of 18,573 in the 5k (!)
2nd of 438 in AG.
Embarrassingly large number of pictures of me on results page.
