Discussion: So fine, indeed!

I had a similar experience myself today. I totally did not want to ride home in the rain, much less stop somewhere and get in some O practice (my goal is to get on a map every day in October). But, by the time I was home, I found I'd rather enjoyed the ride and the little bike-O course I threw in as well. Sometimes getting started is the toughest part of the workout.

And, very nice run. If I'm flirting with 20 minute 5K's in 20 years, I'll be quite happy.

Very nice, PG!

Very nice run. Might have even beat me that day. I wonder if your fellow board members were thinking 'so fine' when they caught a whiff of you entering the room? ;)

The smell of the pizzas in the middle of the table would have masked anything else.

If I'm flirting with 20 minute 5K's in 20 years, I'll be quite happy.

Hell, I'll be ecstatic, though my guess is I'll be lucky to be doing a 20 minute 1K, if that.

USATF says that the men's 80-84 record for 5000m is 21:57:88. Something to shoot for.

I'm shooting for something a little more modest at 80-84: breathing.

Swell, some guy who was almost as old as my father is ran 5K faster than I have probably ever been able to do it. (Not that I have any idea how fast I've really ever been able to run 5K, mind you. My PR appears to be 29:28, set in 2005, but there were 15 controls involved. And I think maybe a big lake that I had to go around, not counted in the distance.)

JJ, I'll bet you've run 5k under 29:28 on one of the Highlander trail runs...

I'll see if I have the information handy to check that out. But I've never been very good at the trail run sections.

I forgot, I once ran 4 miles in 29:56, so that suggests that there was likely a 23:15 5k buried inside there. (It was miles 2 through 6 of a marathon.)