Monday, November 10, 2008

25K Race

I must admit I was pretty disappointed with my performance. The temperature was cool, the air was dry, there was only a light East wind. I honestly expected to run this race near 6:20 pace. But I didn't.

Congratulations to my age group rival RobW who ended up with first place in the AG! Rob and I both lived on the fifth floor at Rice's Sid Richardson College way back in 1978-1979. It's great to see another Sid Rich person taking the hardware.

Here are the splits:
1 - 6:20, 149 bpm
2 - 6:23, 12:43, 159 bpm
3 - 6:28, 19:11, 162 bpm
4 - 6:01, 25:12, 162 bpm this mile was short
5 - 7:02, 32:15, 161 bpm
6 - 6:30, 38:45, 159 bpm
7 - 6:22, 45:07, 162 bpm
8 - 6:35, 51:42, 162 bpm
9 - 6:43, 58:25, 162 bpm
10 - 6:55, 1:05:21, 160 bpm
11 - 6:54, 1:12:16, 158 bpm
12/13 - 13:37, 1:25:53, 158 bpm
14 - 7:05, 1:32:58, 157 bpm
15 - 7:12, 1:40:10, 159 bpm
15.53 - 3:43, 1:43:53, 161 bpm

I'm seriously considering taking a few days off from running. My left knee is still giving me problems.

Here's AdrienneL whizzing by me at the start of the third loop:

Photo by S.Walk

2 comments:

go annie said...

Sorry to hear you were disappointed in your race. Chin up! This is only one race and we all have these. I hope your knee is feeling better :)

Anonymous said...

Hey, Kevin - thanks for the congrats, although technically, RichardP beat all of us... I had a good race, but I'll gladly swap my 25k award for your marathon PR - how about it? ;-)

-Rob