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Saturday Jun 8, 2019 #
7 AM
Road running race 44:22 [5] 6.21 mi (7:09 / mi) +45m 6:59 / mi
shoes: Fastwitch 9
Lawyers Have Heart 10k. Second in 60-69. This is a big race, in downtown D.C, starting and ending under the Whitehurst Freeway by the waterfront. I ran it a few times in the '80s and '90s, but it was on a different course, from what I remember.
I was unable to get close enough to the start (I really don't like standing for a long time waiting for the gun), so I started with the 8-9 minute runners, and spent some time boxed in by various groups. According to the split analysis, that might have cost me about 20s. Notwithstanding, this was my fastest 10k in many years, and a whole minute faster than the last one a month ago. The shoes made a big difference.
Jon T. ran the 5k version, and we hung out waiting for the awards ceremony, which in the end, never happened, due to some problems with the results. We're both trying to get our 3 ranked races in before the end of June for a Washington-area ranking.
Have to go back to November 2012 to find a faster 10k than this.
I was unable to get close enough to the start (I really don't like standing for a long time waiting for the gun), so I started with the 8-9 minute runners, and spent some time boxed in by various groups. According to the split analysis, that might have cost me about 20s. Notwithstanding, this was my fastest 10k in many years, and a whole minute faster than the last one a month ago. The shoes made a big difference.
Jon T. ran the 5k version, and we hung out waiting for the awards ceremony, which in the end, never happened, due to some problems with the results. We're both trying to get our 3 ranked races in before the end of June for a Washington-area ranking.
Have to go back to November 2012 to find a faster 10k than this.