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.

New personal best in 5K

I ran the Whitecane Awareness 5K in 24:43, my fastest race yet. I also finished 3rd in my age group.


Here is some video of me finishing yesterday.

South Daytona 5K

This morning I finished the South Daytona 5K in 25 minutes. I placed 46th out of 160 overall, and 2nd of 7 in the 40-44 age group. I won the nice award in the picture.

Upcoming South Daytona 5K

Tomoka 4 Miler and Toe

It has been a while since I have updated the blog. I recently ran the Tomoka 4 Miler and I finished in 32:32, placing 31 out of 100. I was very happy with the run.

I ran an easy 5 miles the next day and I felt great, and then the problem happened. I was moving a couch and it slid over my left foot completely ripping off my big toenail. I am such a klutz. Two days later, everything is felling better and I am going to get back into training tomorrow evening.

Here are the results of the Tomoka 4 Miler.

13 mile run and scans of blood work

This morning I successfully ran 13.37 miles for the first time. I did it in three stages just about like I planned. I ran for 50 minutes, walked for two minutes, ran for 50 minutes walked for two minutes, then finished with the last 42 minutes. Totaled 2:22:40 at a pace of 10:40 m/m, which I think is pretty good for the first time at this distance. I was real pleased with the effort as I had been hoping to run the half in December in under 2:30. I guess I need to change my race goal time. I was able to run the final two miles at 10:15 m/m, which was my fastest split time. But I felt like I was barely moving, if I had stopped to walk in the last mile I would never had gotten started running again.

I finished the run 5.5 hours ago, and I really thought I would be more tired right now,. But instead of napping I am feeling more awake and alert than I was yesterday after work.

I hope everyone else is doing well,

Darrin

The pics are of the latest blood work tests I had done. First time in years I went to a doctor and I felt the urge to share the results.

Another 7 miler

I ran 7 miles tonight.

I did learned a couple of valuable lessons though, never run 7 miles less than an hour after eating 3 big plates of salad. I felt like I was going to barf almost the whole run. I also forgot to vaseline the nips, so I had another bloody shirt when I was done.

Despite those two problems I still managed to average under 10 minutes per mile, and finished only 2 and a half minutes slower than last week.

I hope everyone had a great day.
Darrin