Lesson learned: Don't try to run a 15K at a 10K pace. :-POverall, my time for this morning's Too Hot To Handle 15K was okay – 1:21:12 – about the same as the Too Cold To Hold 15K (which is on the exact same course, but with cooler weather) back in January. That’s a 8:38/mi GPS-computed pace (the course was 9.38 miles per Garmin). I would have liked to get that down to an 8:15/mi pace for a 15K since I had a PR 8:30/mi pace for the Cowtown Half. Oh well, maybe I'll do better at the Fort Worth Runner's Club Labor Day 15K ...
I was close to my goal pace (8:17/mi) through the 10K mark, but then everything started to fall apart. Probably walked about 4 or 5 times in the last 5K. Sigh ...
Here are my official split times/paces: - 5K: 196th place, 25:02.95 (8:05/mi pace)
- 10K: 205th, 51:21.05 (26:18.10 ... 8:29/mi pace)
- 15K/Finish: 284th, 1:21:12.10 (29:50.25 ... 9:37/mi pace)
My heart rate was quite high with an average of 175 BPM even including the (heart-rate-lowering) walk breaks. In fact before the 10K mark, I was bumping up against 180+. No wonder I conked out by the 6 mile (50-minute) mark!
Still, I was 38th out of 82 in my age group and 284th out of 1032 total 15K finishers. And a lot of improvement over last year's race, when I placed 573rd out of 789 finishers with a time of 1:40:52. So I’ll take it!
Full results at: http://www.runontexas.com/Results/Summer2008/TooHotToHandle2008/TooHotMenu.htm
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