Today I entered my first running race of 2009, The Hayes Hustle. The 5K race is held at Hayes Elementary School (Catholic), which hosted the race in Muscatine. This is only my second 5K run since I began running in August of 2008. My first was a 5K trail run in September of last year. I wanted to do a taper so my body was ready for this run, but I went out Thursday night (2 days before) and rode my bike on the Muscatine Cycling Club's paceline ride. It is supposed to be an 18-20 mph pace, but that night we hardly fell below 20mph. So my legs were dead meat when I got home that night. I did take Friday off of running and riding, but really could of used one more day to rest up.
The race started at 9am and there were just over 200 runners. Our first mile was mostly flat and the 2nd mile was a good downhill, but the last mile was all up hill. There were timers out on the route that shouted out our times at the end of mile 1 and 2. My first split was 6:41, the second was 6:59 and my last was 8:19 for a total of 21:59 (an average of 7:05/mile). My time was 3 minutes faster than the 5K I completed last fall. The biggest difference was this was on pavement, while the run last fall was a trail run on a very hilly course.
I ended up getting first in my age group (55-59) out of 6 runners and overall was 25th out of 206 runners. Since I am primarily a cyclist I thought I did a pretty good job competing against other full-time runners. I only have about 50 running miles in for the whole year, while I have running friends that put in that many miles each week. My next running race is in mid-May.
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