Friday, November 23, 2007

My first ten mile race


I finished in 1:25:08 officially, and kicked my 1:30 goal right in the ass.

Mile Splits according to my watch
1 - 8:17.8
2 - 8:17.4
3 - 8:35
4 - 8:33.8
5 - 8:37.2
6 - 8:41.4
7 - 8:27
8 - 8:33.1
9 - 8:25.6
10 - 8:38.9

AVG 8:31


I started out to quickly, but it did not really hurt me. Once I slowed my pace in mile 3 I ran fairly easy and was actually chatting with another runner. It was a very nice run and I am looking forward to the half next month.
I finished 21st of 26 in age group bag.gif , but 116 of 257 overall. For some reason there were a lot of fast runners in my age group. Steve did beat me by 30 some seconds, but he was ninth in his age group. Those slow old farts.

Also the times are all gun times, Steve and I started about 10 or so seconds from the official start line. So unofficially I beat 1:25.