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Ran a 10k - Official Thread (8 Viewers)
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tri-man 47
Footballguy
TeamGrue still has Harris and Brony from the front of their pack to still run yet, too.
Snowy morning here in Chicago...pushes me back a day or two.
ChiefD
Footballguy
Yep. And your run this morning keeps the momentum going.
And bushdocda. Hoping tomorrow morning goes well. Don't want to let you guys down.
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Harris
Footballguy
Not sure I'm going to live up to my draft position after seeing some of the other guys on our team smoke it!
JAA
Footballguy
gianmarco
Footballguy
What's the penalty for breaking the rule? We could potentially chip in unless it's over 10 Euros or any jail time.
Harris
Footballguy
€135 for the first offense. And the police are out there being diligent. My wife was stopped three times yesterday, twice by the same officer she said!
My plan is to go early on Sunday for as much freedom as possible.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
Did you see the Twitter video Gianmarco posted of the guy at the beach? Use the cops as motivation.€135 for the first offense. And the police are out there being diligent. My wife was stopped three times yesterday, twice by the same officer she said!
My plan is to go early on Sunday for as much freedom as possible.
gianmarco
Footballguy
So that's like €15/each?€135 for the first offense. And the police are out there being diligent. My wife was stopped three times yesterday, twice by the same officer she said!
My plan is to go early on Sunday for as much freedom as possible.
Hmmm......how much are those extra seconds worth, team?
gruecd
Footballguy
Quick race write-up before I start working...
My disdain for short distances is well-documented, and there's no way in hell I'd do this on my own, so I guess I owe you guys a "thank you" for getting my ### out there and doing this.
I treated this like any other race. No running on Tuesday, pasta on Tuesday night, an easy 4-mile shakeout with some strides on Wednesday, and a simple dinner of salmon and rice on Wednesday night. As I wrote to the guys in our team e-mail thread, I was nervous yesterday morning, literally the same way I'd feel nervous for a PR marathon attempt. Got up, did a quick 20-minute low impact (neurostim) ride on the Peloton to wake up my legs, ate my normal breakfast, then spent the morning working.
Fueled up with a PB&J around 10am, had a package of those belVita breakfast biscuits and a flat Coke around 1pm, then hopped in my car to drive to my race route on a paved bike path about 15 minutes from my house. Admittedly, my route was pretty much perfect - point-to-point, gradually descending about 160 feet from start to finish with the wind at my back the whole way. My only concern was two road crossings where the trees make it virtually impossible to check for traffic until you're pretty much there; if I ended up having to stop or even slow down for traffic, it would definitely cost me some time. Anyway, I parked my car at the second crossing and jogged 2.5 miles up towards the start as a warmup. After about 6 minutes, Garmin gave me a "performance condition" score of -2. Probably just the nerves causing an elevated HR, but still...#### you, Garmin. Walked the rest of the way to the start, did a couple of strides, ditched the long-sleeve shirt, switched over to my 5K playlist, and hit the start button. We’re off!
Nothing too memorable about the run itself. My prior PR was 18:36 from many years ago, so my initial goal was just to do better, but I literally hadn’t run anything fast outside since my Turkey Trot back in November, and I’ve NEVER tried to time trial a 5K by myself, so I really had no idea what to expect. When the first mile popped off at 5:48 (with a Garmin score of +0), my goal switched to keeping them all sub-6. As one would expect, it got progressively more painful along the way, but thankfully the real agony held off until the last mile. Also, road crossings were a non-issue. Focused on @pbm107's advice about the second mile being key and used my teammates as motivation the whole way in running these splits:
Mile 1 – 5:48/159 AHR (165 max)
Mile 2 – 5:52/167 AHR (169)
Mile 3 – 5:55/170 AHR (174)
Mile 0.1 – 5:44/174 AHR (176)
Overall time was 18:10, average 5:51/mile, PR by almost 30 seconds at 43 years young. Not bad for an endurance monster.
The only thing that pisses me off, and I really wish that I wasn’t so obsessive, is that I didn’t run the extra hundredth of a mile and stop at 3.11 so that I’d “officially” cover the full 3.10686 miles and Strava would acknowledge the 5K PR. I didn’t stop the watch immediately (waited a second or two) when it said 3.10, so even if the Garmin was perfectly accurate (unlikely), I ran something more than 3.10000 but less than 3.10686. At 5:44 average pace, the extra couple thousandths would’ve added maybe 1-2 seconds to my overall time, so it’s a big PR regardless. Again, I really shouldn’t let that bother me, but I can’t help it. The obsessiveness is a blessing and a curse, I guess.
Anyway, great things so far for #TeamGrue. Keep up the good work, gents!
My disdain for short distances is well-documented, and there's no way in hell I'd do this on my own, so I guess I owe you guys a "thank you" for getting my ### out there and doing this.
I treated this like any other race. No running on Tuesday, pasta on Tuesday night, an easy 4-mile shakeout with some strides on Wednesday, and a simple dinner of salmon and rice on Wednesday night. As I wrote to the guys in our team e-mail thread, I was nervous yesterday morning, literally the same way I'd feel nervous for a PR marathon attempt. Got up, did a quick 20-minute low impact (neurostim) ride on the Peloton to wake up my legs, ate my normal breakfast, then spent the morning working.
Fueled up with a PB&J around 10am, had a package of those belVita breakfast biscuits and a flat Coke around 1pm, then hopped in my car to drive to my race route on a paved bike path about 15 minutes from my house. Admittedly, my route was pretty much perfect - point-to-point, gradually descending about 160 feet from start to finish with the wind at my back the whole way. My only concern was two road crossings where the trees make it virtually impossible to check for traffic until you're pretty much there; if I ended up having to stop or even slow down for traffic, it would definitely cost me some time. Anyway, I parked my car at the second crossing and jogged 2.5 miles up towards the start as a warmup. After about 6 minutes, Garmin gave me a "performance condition" score of -2. Probably just the nerves causing an elevated HR, but still...#### you, Garmin. Walked the rest of the way to the start, did a couple of strides, ditched the long-sleeve shirt, switched over to my 5K playlist, and hit the start button. We’re off!
Nothing too memorable about the run itself. My prior PR was 18:36 from many years ago, so my initial goal was just to do better, but I literally hadn’t run anything fast outside since my Turkey Trot back in November, and I’ve NEVER tried to time trial a 5K by myself, so I really had no idea what to expect. When the first mile popped off at 5:48 (with a Garmin score of +0), my goal switched to keeping them all sub-6. As one would expect, it got progressively more painful along the way, but thankfully the real agony held off until the last mile. Also, road crossings were a non-issue. Focused on @pbm107's advice about the second mile being key and used my teammates as motivation the whole way in running these splits:
Mile 1 – 5:48/159 AHR (165 max)
Mile 2 – 5:52/167 AHR (169)
Mile 3 – 5:55/170 AHR (174)
Mile 0.1 – 5:44/174 AHR (176)
Overall time was 18:10, average 5:51/mile, PR by almost 30 seconds at 43 years young. Not bad for an endurance monster.
The only thing that pisses me off, and I really wish that I wasn’t so obsessive, is that I didn’t run the extra hundredth of a mile and stop at 3.11 so that I’d “officially” cover the full 3.10686 miles and Strava would acknowledge the 5K PR. I didn’t stop the watch immediately (waited a second or two) when it said 3.10, so even if the Garmin was perfectly accurate (unlikely), I ran something more than 3.10000 but less than 3.10686. At 5:44 average pace, the extra couple thousandths would’ve added maybe 1-2 seconds to my overall time, so it’s a big PR regardless. Again, I really shouldn’t let that bother me, but I can’t help it. The obsessiveness is a blessing and a curse, I guess.
Anyway, great things so far for #TeamGrue. Keep up the good work, gents!
Harris
Footballguy
Ha, won't be necessary. I've got Google Earth up and using the ruler to figure out 1km as the crow flies. I've got a solid "Z" shape going
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
ChiefD
Footballguy
Awesome report grue!
The part I quoted is what I've been trying to do this week. Been in my race week routine on nutrition this week. I've been feeling antsy yesterday and today, so I know I've got the right types of foods in me.
Just need to execute now.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
Another thing is people wondered about motivation lacking since we're not in a race setting with other racers. If you're thinking about all the runners in this thread every 10 seconds while racing, that can be plenty of motivation.
I'm plenty nervous.
Zasada
Footballguy
Yeah I was totally "meh" about this, up until yesterday when the numbers started rolling-in. Now I'm nervous and stressed AF.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
gianmarco
Footballguy
Zasada
Footballguy
I should put you guys on a conference call for the run, so that you can yell at me for the whole thing. Garmin even has a livetrack feature so you could follow along (my wife gets an email every time I start a run, so that she knows where I am and where I keel-over dead -- when that eventually happens).
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Zasada
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I'm not ####### leaving the house until after I #### three times (which is why I decided to run on a Saturday, so that I'm not time-crunched for work). And if there are any gut issues on the 3K WU, I'm running back home for a 4th.How does that work with the bowels?
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JAA
Footballguy
Garmin link for those who like geeky stats: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/4796678311
I find my ground contact balance entertaining. I still have a plate and screws in my left ankle. Range of motion is significantly reduced and it shows.
I find my ground contact balance entertaining. I still have a plate and screws in my left ankle. Range of motion is significantly reduced and it shows.
JAA
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
@The Iguana - You've been uncharacteristically quiet the last couple of days. Everything OK? Bad storms keeping you from getting online?
Brony
Footballguy
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
I don’t know that I’ve ever run a 5K, so I should get out there quick and keep this streak going!
gianmarco
Footballguy
The Iguana
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
ChiefD
Footballguy
gianmarco
Footballguy
The Iguana
Footballguy
I'm good. Just been surprisingly busy working from home. Also letting stuff get in the way of running - some valid, some not so much. I'll be getting out bright and early tomorrow morning to crush my 5k, however.
bushdocda
Footballguy
I programmed a workout segment for 5k so I knew it would ‘lap’ it without me having to worry about it than ran past it just to hurt longer.
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tri-man 47
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JAA
Footballguy
ChiefD
Footballguy
