Lilac - Recap

2011 Lilac 5K. Very good run. Plenty of Hills. Very Crowded!! Crowds of runners from beginning to end. Also a humid day.

I completely missed the post run fest?!?!

Official time: 33:25, 10:47 pace, 49th in my age group

From NIKE GPS Watch:

MILE TIME AVG. PACE

1 10:08 10'08"/mi

2 19:45 9'37"/mi

3 31:11 11'26"/mi

Lilac 5K

Getting ready for the Medved Lilac 5k next Sunday!

Only in Rochester do we dedicate a whole festival & week to a shrub!

Should be a good race though the weather is saying rain for a week straight...Yuck!

Just doing my normal 9 mile/week training nothing crazy...

1st Race Recap

I did it! Thank God!

12 weeks ago didn't think I could walk 3.1 miles let alone run at a decent race pace.

Of course like all runners i went out too fast! You almost have to get around walkers and other runners. But more important I ran the whole way (except my shoe malfunction, re-tie my shoe when my key almost fell off on main :))

Heres my unofficial from my not so well calibrated Nike + sport band:

MILE TIME AVG. PACE

1 9:58 9'58"/mi

2 20:29 10'31"/mi

3 31:35 11'06"/mi

Official Time: 33:40/10:52 pace; 424 overall place/186 m/f place; 33 0f 46 for my division..

I also surprised myself I did and all out sprint at 3 mi marker to the finish. Something I hadn't practice. Felt like I needed to leave it all on the course!! Will be practicing in future.

All in all it was GREAT! These are the fastest times I've run all year! So I now know I can do it, I'm a runner!

As my shirt said today. "Running Changes Everything"