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Atlanta Track Club Heart and Soles 5K

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Member Since:

Feb 19, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Half Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

2:43 Marathon

1:17:45 Half Marathon

59:09 10 miles

17:15 5k

Still Running (again) after all these years

Short-Term Running Goals:

get back to it and not be a fat blob

Long-Term Running Goals:

Enjoy running my whole life

Personal:

Married 21 years- - two kids - 18 year old boy and  15 year old girl

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Race: Atlanta Track Club Heart and Soles 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:17:31, Place overall: 16, Place in age division: 4
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.003.100.009.10

This race was snowed/iced out on Feb Valentines day weekend.  And they rescheduled it to today.  It is a pretty fast course, so I didn't want to miss it.  There was talk about going on a vacation trip this weekend, but I'm glad that fizzled out and I was able to do it.  It is defenitely a PR course in the past. 

Going into this race I haven't done any 5K pace running, which is a big gap in my training that I need to fix.  But I felt good coming into the race, more or less.  The warm-up was long enough and felt ok.  The plan was to go out by feel.  In a short race I generally go out on a faster pace and then try to hang on.  I figure I'll hurt at the end no matter how conservatively I take the first mile.  Mile one was right at 5:30, which was good.  Now I had to concentrate on hanging on and trying to maintain a pace I could keep up.  2nd mile is pretty flat but somehow last year I slowed a bit.  I did it last year and did it this year again.  I think I get scared of the pace and how long I can hold it.  But I passed a couple guys and gained on a couple others.  Mile 2 came in at 11:15 for a 5:45 mile.  3rd mile has a medium size up and a nice slightly downhill last half mile.  It is a matter of making it through the hill without totally blowing up.  I wanted to stop several times in the last two miles...I was getting close to redlining it.  I crested the hill and really wanted to throw it into my final gear, but there wasn't much to be had.  I tried my best.  One dude passed me but other than that I maintained my gaps to the others in front.  I rolled in at 17:31.  A new 5K PR! 

So it is a new PR and I am very happy with that.  It is 12 or 13 seconds faster than this race last year (and it was run in 40-50 deg weather - which I think is worth 10 seconds vs this heat and humidity) But isn't as fast as I'd like to be.  I need to work harder on my speed work. 

Weight: 141.00
Comments
From DonGardinero on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 15:49:53 from 152.216.7.5

Awesome job man!!! Congrats on the PR. That is way cool. What place did you take?

From timp on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 17:24:11 from 144.189.100.25

thanks Dale! I haven't added up the results yet, but I was somewhere in the 15th-20 range for the overall race. 4th in AG. We have some speedy guys around here and this wasn't even all the fast guys who normally show up. It is a hard core bunch around here. Winner was 16:02. My AG winner was 16:33.

From DonGardinero on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 17:35:45 from 152.216.7.5

Boy, I'll say there are a bunch of speedy guys out there. WOW!

From Andy on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 18:10:13 from 198.60.114.178

Great job on the PR. Isn't this almost 90 seconds faster than you ran a couple of months ago?

From timp on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 18:17:40 from 144.189.100.25

thanks Andy - it was over a minute, yeah. But that course was a bit long and a bit harder... It is all in the course selection.

Hoping your RR is up -- looking now...

From JD on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 18:36:37 from 166.128.78.114

Great PR Timp. Wow 5:39 per mile avg.!

From Rhett on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 22:02:45 from 184.10.154.170

Wow Tim! That is FAST!!!! You are amazing. I was telling my wife about you this morning on our run and how not long ago you weighed a lot more, but now you are blazing fast. You definitely are a gifted runner. Great job on the PR.

From timp on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 22:26:10 from 144.189.100.25

Thanks Rhett - you rock!

From Teena Marie on Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:52:57 from 174.52.45.85

No way you were going to redline!!! You are too killer fast and too killer amazing!!!!

Congrats on the PR!

You rocked that. :)

From timp on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 08:31:07 from 144.189.100.25

Thanks Teena!

From timp on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 08:46:55 from 144.189.100.25

thanks JD!

From KP on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:10:22 from 65.208.22.26

awesome job! the heat and humidity were terrible this weekend.

From timp on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:19:51 from 144.189.100.25

thanks KP - Great job on your race as well!

From Tom Slick on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:25:57 from 168.179.157.104

Wow, you are amazing. Congrats on a fine 5K and a super time. How are you feeling today, any gotchas barking at you?

From timp on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:34:37 from 144.189.100.25

Thanks Slick. Nothing aching. I'm all set to get back at it.

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