Coach Kidd told me and my running partner about this race last Thursday, so we decided to do it rather than me doing the Enterprise 5K Fun Run all by my lonesome. The course was a relatively flat 80 or 90% paved so it was pretty quick, although my knees and ankles suffered a little bit. Anyhow, I started out quite well, hung with the second pack about 20 seconds behind the leaders in 7th or 8th place up through the halfway where I hit a bit of a wall (mostly mental since this is the first race I've done in over a year). I think part of it was that I haven't had much practice lately pacing myself without someone right with me for anything over a mile. I was able to get my head back in the game at about mile 2 and closed the gap on the next runner, finishing about 13 seconds behind him. |