Week 1(?) is in the books and boy, was it strenuous.
Returned home from ECAC's last friday, left the next morning for the Poconos to golf until my arms fell off. Squeaked in a 99 in our second to last round. Left to go back home 3 days ago, jogged with my high school team yesterday as my first real form of exercise in 8 days, and ran a race today benefiting our school's board of education foundation. The competition looked stiff. 40 year olds, 11 year olds, and not much in between. There were a few legit guys, like 8:49 3ker zach schwartz from brandeis, a dude from germany whose warmup consisted of doing all out strides in a full sweatsuit for AN HOUR, and some syracuse alum with a sick SU tat on his thigh. Cruised through the first mile with the top 5 and felt like we were running 6:00 pace. Later it turns out we went through in 5:25. Pulled away in the second mile and ran 9:58 for the last 2 miles... oops. "5k" finish in 14:55. schwartz was second in 15:28. turned out to be 2.89 miles on googlemaps, but i'm wheeling it this week. extrapolates to like 15:50-16:10 pace. It felt really smooth considering my conditioning (fat (not really)). More importantly though, those previously mentioned 40 year old women were all over my spandex-clad nuts at the awards ceremony. It was so good, yet so bad.
Sparksnotes: HOLY HALF-TIGHTS, BATMAN!!!
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5:25+9:58=15:23...?
ReplyDeletealso, jerz and i saw two moderately tall dudes running about 10 minute pace in half tights today. they were really benefitting from the aerodynamics