10/21/2017
love how this came out, photo is ~5 minutes after teh race:
quick recap of race related stuff.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1240445005/overviewhttp://www.splitsecondtiming.com/results/2017/schott2017.php- official results
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nice typo on their results: "5K Raceesults" 
19:21 for 5k official, I think? 2nd overall.
Schott Communities 5k Race: 2nd overall, 19:21 official I think? mile-1 (hard, by myself, 5:27), miles-2/3 ("cooldown" lmao, 6:23, 6:37) ::: no watch, rain, puddles.the "really fast guys" (16:XX) weren't there, so felt good and decided to just hit a hard first mile, not knowing if anyone could keep up. Ended up hitting 5:27 for that mile, happy about it, definitely not a max effort, but was really hoping to stay shoulder to shoulder w/ someone crazy fast. The guy who normally wins was there, but not running unfortunately. I went up and talked to him after, he said he hurt his knee 3 weeks ago, so that sucks.
got a really nice "trophy" - a painting by someone from the "schott community", which is a community dedicated to helping people with disabilities.. the painting is really sick.
at ~1 mile, someone at a water station was like, "yeaaah first place keep it up!!" and i was like, "thanks, not for long though.." lmfao. Around ~1.5+ the guy who won first overall caught me and just kept his ~6:00 min/mi pace, and he went on to win.
I had a solid 2nd it seemed like, so just kept trying to relax and coast it out.. these 2 "cooldown miles" felt better than last week, but I think alot of that has to do with mindset: I wasn't disappointed in trying to keep up with #1 etc, my goal was completely different (hard 1, 2 relax), so it actually felt better mentally. It also turned out to be better splits for mile #2 & #3 than last week.
I didn't feel amazing when warming up, felt a bit dead.. which sucks considering how good I felt yesterday. So I knew my "bounce" wasn't there like I was expecting.
regardless, happy about it.
not going to race next week, going to just relax and get more 1-mile focus training in.
I need to get my "idle pace" (that pace I hit in my "cooldown miles") to 6:00 min/mi ... .. i was definitely feeling it after that mile, but, since i stopped at a mile and didn't keep it going, I was way more relaxed/comfortable than last race.. so if I could have gotten my last 2 miles to be relaxed 6:00 min/mi's, i'd still have sub 6 average over 3.1 basically.. and i'd be able to relax still in the last two.[/b]
post race meal, provided by the event:
this photo has a funny story to it:
Quick story.. #tldr, this is Gene #Witkowski.. if you do #running races in #florida, this is the guy who most likely certified that course for #usatf... 💪 saw the bumper stickers on this van, made me lol, snapped a few #photos, then I hear this voice say "that's my car you're taking photos of", so i start cracking up and ask him about some of them.. so we started talking #politics, lots of head shaking on both our parts, basically we agreed that everything is a mess... 😎 anyway he told me all about the usatf certification process and a little about his time in the #military #okinawa #veteran #war #marines #ww2. If you see a van driving around at 4am on the wrong side of the road, that's probably Gene... lmfao. #gooddude #runningstories
he had "blue lives matter" and "4 died hillary lied" bumper stickers.. he also had some more normal ones. anyway, i didn't mention it in there but, I asked him about Trump.. he just kept shaking his head looking down, and i started laughing, and he just kept shaking his head, until finally he said "it's just a mess". lmfao :/
also, at the end of our convo, he said he had to go, he had another race to attend. i'm like, can i get a photo of you, and he kind of was like "nah", but i literally said, "dude. you're the guy behind all of these course certifications, and no one knows it. i'd love to put up a photo and let people know." .. then he basically lit up, put his trunk down so the bumper stickers would be in the photo, and posed like he did in that photo, with a big smile on his face. hehe.
http://www.usatf.org/events/courses/search/searchResults.asp?lastName=Witkowski&firstInitial=Genepc!
edit:
some stats from endomondo, "best distances", love this feature:
12 minute test: 2.02 mi
- 10.01 mph / 5:57 min/mi
1 km: 3:17
- 11.37 mph, 5:18 min/mi
1 mi: 5:26, 11.03 mph
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props to people jumping with trombones or french horns tho lmao.
