RACE DAY - Heart Throb 5K

Race Date: February 14, 2010
Target Time: 21:59
Official Time: 22:30 (?)
Race Distance: > 5K :)

Once again I receive race results. And once again I am stuck on the 22:00 plateau I've been on since last May. Though it is disheartening to be so far off my personal record of 22:02 after more than four months of intense training, it's okay. I probably could have pushed harder. The course was actually 3.23 miles rather than 3.1 miles. The one mile marker was at 0.9 miles....The two mile marker was at 2.1 miles....(Thank you GPS for all this information) Though I may have just barely beat my PR on the first 3.1 miles of the course (unofficially), it is certainly clear that when you get to this point, you have to accept small incremental improvements. After all, I only started running less than two years ago. How long does it take to develop the necessary aerobic capacity for a 20:00 minute 5K after a sedentary lifestyle for my first 26 years?

I enjoy it all. I enjoy the training, and I enjoy the fitness.


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Total Distance: 5.28 km (3.3 mi)
Total Time: 23:21
Moving Time: 22:36
Average Pace: 4.42 min/km (7.1 min/mi)
Average Moving Pace: 4.28 min/km (6.9 min/mi) <--sub 7:00; sub 22:00! (sigh)
Min Pace: 2.89 min/km (4.6 min/mi)
Min Elevation: 209 m (684 ft)
Max Elevation: 233 m (764 ft)
Elevation Gain: 85 m (280 ft)
Max Grade: 7 %
Min Grade: 1 %
Recorded: Sun Feb 14 12:03:09 EDT 2010
Activity type: race running