I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday. Mine was lovely. I started off the day with my 5k Turkey Trot.
When I signed up for the Turkey Trot in October, my goal was to go sub-30 minutes. As my training progressed over the past few weeks, that seemed a bit unrealistic. My base run was at 35 minutes, and my pacing was all over the place.
As you may recall, I was having a terrible time pushing through the second mile. Just this past week, I started running the whole three miles and keeping a pretty consistent pace around 10:25 minutes per mile. This led me to reevaluate my goal for the 5k and set it at 31:00 minutes.
Well, I blew that out of the water. I successfully completed the 5k just under the 30 minute mark, averaging a 9:38 minute per mile according to my GPS. The recorded time was 10:26, but that was from the official start time of the first runner, and not my actual start line to finish line time (thank goodness for GPS).
I started off with a 9:51 pace for my first mile. To be honest, when I heard that I thought I was screwed. I haven't run a sub-10 minute mile ever, so I thought I had way overdone it and that I would burn out early.
The second mile came in at a 9:49 pace. I was feeling it in my calves at that point, so I was still pretty sure that I was going to burnout on the third mile.
Then my third mile came in at a 9:06 pace, and my face blew up into the goofiest grin. This was when I knew I had my sub-30 5k. I sprinted the crap out of that last .1 miles, and loved every second of it.
It made my whole day to hit my original goal. I had no idea it was going to happen, and that made it so much better.
I'd call it a major success. And now I'm super confident that I can go sub-60 for the 10k in January. Training here I come.
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