10k race day!
didn't get enough sleep. left knee still hurting (VL insertion), but it's slight.. enough though to make me worried and become more cautious. did a few jogs in place, felt good, so decided to at least go to the race and warmup. during warmups, felt good, so decided to race. didn't bug me at all during the race, thankfully. bugging me a little afterwards.
photos from last week:
01/26/2019diet:- pre-race: 05:40 AM: tall glass of orange juice, banana, water
- pre-race: 05:55 AM: flax oatmeal + honey + pink salt, water
- race: 07:30 AM: 14th Annual Flipany 10k: 2nd OA @ 36:18 (Big PB
) :: lead for 5.25 miles then got SMOKED lmfao. /// again, no water during the race! /// {5:47, 5:53, 5:51, 5:56, 5:59, 5:56, 0.2=5:59}
- 10:30 AM: pita egg sandwich, caramel frap, soup!
- TODO: moar food
07:30 AM: 14th Annual Flipany 10k: 2nd OA @ 36:18 (Big PB) :: lead for 5.25 miles then got SMOKED lmfao. /// again, no water during the race! /// {5:47, 5:53, 5:51, 5:56, 5:59, 5:56, 0.2=5:59}-
https://www.strava.com/activities/2104285201-
https://www.endomondo.com/users/26420622/workouts/1259645941-
https://runsignup.com/Race/Results/55865/#resultSetId-139386;perpage:10- Flipany 10k: 2nd OA @ 36:18 (-55s
) /// 5:51 min/mi pace for 6.2 miles!
goal was to hit every split under 6, got it done. never did that before, for that long. felt really good. almost lost it on one split, that 5:59 could easily have been 6 and i'd be annoyed right now instead of happy. lol. I don't think i've ever hit sub6 (actual splits, not avg) for more than 3.1 miles. So getting it done for 6.2 is good progress. I'd like to do it for 10 miles or 13.1 miles in the next few months etc.
really great race.. man i got owned. dude was "drafting on me" for pretty much the entire race. I could hear him breathing hard from mile 1, really thought he'd be toast. but there he was, mile 5, right behind me. I knew by mile 4 that this dude was tough, but didn't think he was going to beat me. I figured he might just keep drafting on me until the end, then i'd outkick him hard, game over. Basically, a little after mile 5, he just took off, and i tried to stick but the pace seemed kind of crazy.. had to be 5:2X or less .. so i was thinking maybe he was taking off too early, but he just kept going. He ended up hitting 35:46, and me 36:18, so he basically dropped me by over 30 seconds in one mile. Impressive. Definitely got KO'd at the end. RIP. love getting KO'd in running, good fuel. lmfao.
previous 10k PR = 37:13 (official). so, dropped ~55s off of my previous PR today!
also, one funny thing happened.. guy who overtook me and won was potentially a fuckface. around mile 5, I "cut a turn" (didn't realize it until this guy yelled at me) by like, 5 feet (going on the inside of the cone instead of the outside). but, I couldn't see the cone because I had a motorcycle cop in front of me, and the cop went on the inside like i did. so this fuckface freaks out and yells at me and i'm like "dude what" and i just kept running. i mean he went on the outside of it, he could have also gone on the inside instead of whining.. or just not whined. shortly after, he smoked me. I felt like saying something but i didn't. i congratulated him at the end etc, no prob. but you could tell he was a bit of a dick.
anyway, the thing that pissed me off about it was, here's this guy who is clearly faster than me, who was drafting on me for nearly the entire race, whining about me going on the inside of a cone (that's the only time it happened). what a douche bag. i shielded him from the wind for like 5 miles and he acts like a whiny little bitch. wish i would have beat him but, he's clearly a faster runner. looked him up briefly, 16:XX 5k guy (recent numbers). i do wonder what he would have said if i had won tho, probably would have complained that i cheated.. literally cut a corner by a few feet and this guy is throwing a tantrum.
to add to that, i asked the race director about the cones before the race. i'm like, do u stay on the right side always? and he told me it doesn't matter.. said it right in front of the other dude too. so here's some hard left turn with a bunch of cones.. come to think of it, might not have even had to run on that side of it. maybe he fu*ked up. dude needs to relax.
that probably goes down as the most annoying moment in racing so far, for me. lol.
all good tho.
finally: my last split says 0.16 mi instead of 0.2.. who knows. tons of storm clouds, maybe gps mess up. i asked the guy what he got at the end because i didn't see my time (they had the "time sign" turned the wrong way, couldnt see what your time was entering the finish, noob life lmao). guy looked at his watch and said 35:45 for 10k (and his official was 35:46), so could have just been some gps jankyness who knows. def sub37 tho.
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footer stats:
top3 finishes:2019: 3/5
2018: 30/45
2017: 6/12
2016: 4/10
2015: 0/2
2006: 0/1
sub5 mi's, sub3 1k's:2019: 0, 0
2018: 12, 15
2017: 1, 1
2016: 0, 0
2015: 0, 0
