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Ran a 10k - Official Thread (8 Viewers)

I'm running around a track with my GPS enabled Garmin 920XT.  I'm hitting start and when my distance hits 3.11 i'm hitting stop.

My watch it setup to lap every .5 mile.  I get the .5mi time, total time, and lap number.  When it laps ill get a buzz and those values will show on my watch for 8 seconds.

I show my HR on the watch screen during the run.  This will help me know how to pace and if i am going too hard or too grue.  For my 5k im guessing a range of 185-195 for the first 2 miles and then a mad dash of 195+ for the last mile.  Im guessing ill hit over 200bpm in the last 200.

 
My non-wet windows for the 5K are Thursday morning or Saturday (where I can get out while my wife isn't at work).  Thursday morning "feels like" 22 degrees...bleh.  Looking like Saturday, I'm hoping I get a window of no rain/snow and some dry pavement.

 
JAA said:
I'm running around a track with my GPS enabled Garmin 920XT.  I'm hitting start and when my distance hits 3.11 i'm hitting stop.

My watch it setup to lap every .5 mile.  I get the .5mi time, total time, and lap number.  When it laps ill get a buzz and those values will show on my watch for 8 seconds.

I show my HR on the watch screen during the run.  This will help me know how to pace and if i am going too hard or too grue.  For my 5k im guessing a range of 185-195 for the first 2 miles and then a mad dash of 195+ for the last mile.  Im guessing ill hit over 200bpm in the last 200.
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If you're doing a track, it needs to be based on the track distance which you'll know, as GPS watches notoriously don't measure tracks accurately. 

Is your track going to open in a couple weeks for the 5K?

 
ChiefD said:
Reading an article in The Athletic right now. This quote in the article is gold:

“Running is something you just do. You don’t need a goal. You don’t need a race. You don’t need the hype of a so-called fitness craze. All you need is a cheap pair of shoes and some time. The rest will follow.”
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Zen running seems like a great idea until you try to do it consistently.

 
Juxtatarot said:
Zen running seems like a great idea until you try to do it consistently.
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Yeah, Zen running once in a while is OK, but Zen doesn't get me out of bed in the morning.  Fear of race failure is #1 on my list of motivations, and fear of getting fat is #2.

Without those motivations, there is no way in this universe I would keep up with it.

 
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Changed my Garmin from pace to lap pace and finally put distance as the primary metric.  Thanks for the tips.  :thumbup:

Home version of elliptical showed up at my house this morning.  Need to get it pimped out with fan, tablet holder and refrigerator. 

 
xulf said:
My non-wet windows for the 5K are Thursday morning or Saturday (where I can get out while my wife isn't at work).  Thursday morning "feels like" 22 degrees...bleh.  Looking like Saturday, I'm hoping I get a window of no rain/snow and some dry pavement.
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Saturday's weather should be great. It isn't going to get cold enough for any snow that falls to stick to pavement down by you; maybe grass and elevated surfaces. Can't imagine it'd still be wait beyond about 9 am - if that.

If I don't go Thursday then I may need to wait a while on Saturday though. Our forecaster's are saying models indicate it should be just warm enough to not be a problem once the system's out, but there is not much margin for error. 

And as I'm hitting 'submit reply' - YES MY NEW SHOES JUST GOT HERE **FIST PUMPS AND CHEST BUMPS**

 
Juxtatarot said:
Zen running seems like a great idea until you try to do it consistently.
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I've gleaned that I seem to be an extreme minority, but I can (and need to) do months of this after a peak race. It's how I re-calibrate and de-stress before my next cycle. I'm in a weird spot right now because I'm trying to toe the line between staying sharp and unwinding in hopes of a Fall race. I don't think you can really do both, which is why it isn't really working. I have been mostly on since August and I think it's beginning to wear on me, which would be fine if I were racing a month from now as scheduled. But I ain't.

 
MAC_32 said:
I've gleaned that I seem to be an extreme minority, but I can (and need to) do months of this after a peak race. It's how I re-calibrate and de-stress before my next cycle. I'm in a weird spot right now because I'm trying to toe the line between staying sharp and unwinding in hopes of a Fall race. I don't think you can really do both, which is why it isn't really working. I have been mostly on since August and I think it's beginning to wear on me, which would be fine if I were racing a month from now as scheduled. But I ain't.
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:confused:

Pretty sure we have a 10K coming up right around then.  Get your head in the game!

 
gianmarco said:
JAA said:
I'm running around a track with my GPS enabled Garmin 920XT.  I'm hitting start and when my distance hits 3.11 i'm hitting stop.

My watch it setup to lap every .5 mile.  I get the .5mi time, total time, and lap number.  When it laps ill get a buzz and those values will show on my watch for 8 seconds.

I show my HR on the watch screen during the run.  This will help me know how to pace and if i am going too hard or too grue.  For my 5k im guessing a range of 185-195 for the first 2 miles and then a mad dash of 195+ for the last mile.  Im guessing ill hit over 200bpm in the last 200.
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If you're doing a track, it needs to be based on the track distance which you'll know, as GPS watches notoriously don't measure tracks accurately. 

Is your track going to open in a couple weeks for the 5K?
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Good point - ill prolly just run the 1 mile this weekend.  Ill run a few of them back-2-back and then folks can decide which one to take

 
ChiefD said:
A 10k to Mac is not really a race. 

He scoffs at our piddly distances. 
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A properly raced 10K is pure unadulturated hell. I think it should feel worse than a 5K. That last mile of a 5K may leave you considering the noose instead, but double - or triple that in time with a 10K. Wrong turns aside I don't think I've done it yet - I think there is another pain cave level. I got into the mid 160's before mile 2 of that March race, but - I stayed there. Maybe my legs really didn't have more that day, but if I'm being honest it wasn't a consistent A effort anyway. I've gone up to and passed 170 since then on training runs. I need to do that in May. And this week.

 
Dr_Zaius said:
Does anyone else go through the same routine :

  1. Thoughts from ~Mile 1.2-2.8 of a 5K "I can't go any faster than this, it's not possible"
  2. Thoughts about 30 seconds after finishing said 5K "I probably could have gone a little faster"
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Yep

Same with almost any race, to a degree.

Try a sprint tri sometime. Fun torture.

 
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Dr_Zaius said:
Thoughts about 30 seconds after finishing said 5K "I probably could have gone a little faster"
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This is every race for me.  Even after my VO2MAX test, I said to the tester about 3 minutes after, "I probably could have hung on a little longer".

 
Juxtatarot said:
If you set a PR during one of these virtual races, would you consider it an ***offical*** PR?
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Not for me.  An "official" PR, for me, means an actual, timed and organized race.  So I have to run the distance of the race, including the extra distance that a race usually entails, for it to be official. 

Which is why I still haven't logged an official 5K race time in my Strava PRs.  Only the estimated ones.

 
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@Zasada 13 mile runs during race week?
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Stupid 2,500mi goal.  Stupid, stupid, stupid.  As much as I try to drop it, I'm obsessed with it.  It's sitting there on my Strava page, taunting me.  And if I fall behind, every month I'm going to see a post on this thread reminding me of my failure.

That, and I just don't know how much a taper helps me on the shorter distances anyway.  I set my (unofficial) 5K PR back in early Oct after running a 13-miler the prior Wed, a 7-mile trail run the day before, and then running 10 miles to the race (and running the "race" 30 minutes later).  I set my official 10K PR during marathon training without a taper.

As an aside, I don't think I have to worry about beating either of those PRs for these races.  Maybe the 10K.  But the 5K was when I was at my peak fitness, and I'm not there now.  Even though I've been running way more.  :rant:

I might take tomorrow off to give myself a two day rest before Saturday's 5K.  Otherwise, I'll have one day's rest prior.  

The other thing my obsessive-compulsive personality has latched on to, is that my current training failures are a result of not running my midweek 13-milers like I used to (and stopped when I moved to DFW).  So I'm trying to reinstate that habit.  Likely total BS, but that's what I've convinced myself to be true.

Lots of lame, stupid excuses.  But I've never been quite right mentally.

 
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So it's been a while (like a week, but that's "a while" for me) since I've had to poop mid-run.  But I had an idea -- I could get a plastic bag and stuff it in my Flipbelt.  And use said bag (instead of my now-favourite garbage bin) on any future runs where I had "issues" (because the community centre restroom I have used in the past is now closed for COVID).

Despite eating right last night, and despite having a quality pre-run download, I found myself in my usual pickle this morning.  Located a bush, used the bag, and deposited said bag in a dedicated dog poop container.  Perfect!  Genius!

Then deep into lap two of my run, the thunder started to roll again.  ####.  And I had only packed one bag in preparation.  So back to my favourite garbage can.  

Sigh.  Will be packing two bags in my flip belt for the future...

 
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Brony said:
Bags? WTF? 
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Welcome to my universe.  Where bags are considered a great solution.

I've been very lucky to have good health, but the one area I've had lifelong issues, is the lower half of my digestive process.  Total #### show.  Pun intended.

 
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