Sunday, February 22, 2009
Pretty Happy with the Results
What can I say - Josh threw down the gauntlet when he insisted that my time should be below 9:00. I slacked off training this week and my diet on the road wasn't great as I was stressed out about some logistics at work and really wasn't focused like I should have been. I'm hoping to be more focused this week - particularly if I want to run 9 miles as planned for Sat this week.
Results from NYRR from the race said that I finished the 5K in 26:59, or 8:42 per mile. Since running the 1-mile race in September last year I've been getting steadily faster in my times and this was a big improvement. In October I ran 5M at 9:58, Nov I did 4M in 9:43 and my first race of this year was 9:24 for a 5M. Today's distance was only 3 miles but I did a nice 2M warm up to get a little loose after a week of sitting on my computer without running.
My heart was pounding hard for this one. Compared to my training runs where I'm trying to keep it under 165 I was way out there at 175 for most of this run but didn't feel too bad.
Overall very happy and planning to work hard to make this a solid week of training.
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I'd say this was a pretty fantastic result as Brian shattered his pr while dropping well into the 8 minutes per mile mark. My comment was that he should have a time that led with an 8, not that he should shame the 0.5's and go straight for the lower 0.4's - not that we want to get way ahead of ourselves, but if this were the marathon, Brian would have taken 15 minutes off his overall time - pretty impressive. Oh yeah, and Tiger Woods gave Brian his personal salute - noting that Brian had just run his fastest mile EVER! Well done, impressive - especially given a non-entity work week for running.
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