Official results can be found here. As Scott said, “In a race that size (608 runners) you could easily be top 10 with 6 minute pace.” However, since it serves as the UWEC cross country alumni race, 6:00 pace is only good for 43rd place. The goods news is that I finished 2nd in my age-group – up from 3rd last year.
Others of note; the overall winner, is the 2:23 marathoner I’ve mentioned before. 2nd overall is the UWEC 1500 record holder. 3rd overall has incredible range; sub-15 5k to 7:12 100k. Apparently the guy in 4th is the son of the 1968 10,000 meter Olympic champion. And of course I have to mention 67 year old Dan Conway who ran 32:14.
A little research shows I’ve run this race 11 times in the last 14 years. My best is 28:14 and worst is 34:07 (even worse than I originally thought). Here are all of those results;
1993 29:41
1994 28:26
1995 28:14
1996 30:54
1997 31:17
1999 34:07
2001 31:35
2002 29:15
2004 29:42
2005 30:02
2006 29:50
The first 3 results are from my sophomore – senior years. The bold 29:15 is my post 30+ years-old PR. Again, that was run 6 weeks before my marathon PR. Right now we’re 7 weeks from Chicago.
Saturday’s mileage gave me a nice cutback week of 28 miles. Sunday I ran a very easy 10 mile trail run.
Monday I met Scott for a long run while watching the Victory 10k and 5k. These are some of the fastest races in the cities, but since it’s the same weekend as my alumni race, I’ve only run the 10k once.
I kind of like this long-run-while-watching-a-race thing. We were able to take advantage of the closed roads and the mile markers. I thought we were moving pretty well so I checked a few splits along the way. We had a couple of 2-mile stretches at 7:18 and 7:24 pace. After dropping Scott off after nearly 2 hours of running, I hooked up with David (34:51), Jenna (35:10) and Evan (37:20) during their cool-down and we ran the course again. I ended up with 22 miles in 2:50.
During the last mile we were able to watch the 5k finishers, which included some gal in second place (16:04) behind some guy who must have been jogging his 15:36. Oh yeah, their teammate won the 10k in 29:50.
Here are the men’s 10k results, women’s 10k results and the 5k results.
Okay, I think that’s enough links, results and name-dropping for today.
Quote of the day;
“The devotion of the true amateur athlete is the same devotion that makes an artist starve in his garret rather than commercialize his work.” - Avery Brundage, IOC president from 1952-1972
Man.....your splits depress me!!! I don't know if I can visit your blog anymore until I finish with my marathon training and the marathon :-)
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that you have come back very well from the leg issues you were experiencing following the winter of high mileage. Not a bad result given what's been going on and your past history.
ReplyDeleteCan't say that I've ever run while watching a race. Sounds like a novel concept.
Zeke, I don't know if this will help, but here are my last 7 weeks before Lakefront 2004 into the wind.
ReplyDelete8/15= 5.0 easy (8:48) trails
8/16= 4.7 (7:42)
8/17= AM 5.0 (7:43) PM 10.7 w/ 5 x 1200 (3:55,3:52,3:58,4:06,4:17)
8/18= 13.1 (7:17)
8/19= OFF
8/20= 14.3 w/ 15k (5:55)
8/21= 18.0 (7:19)
Total 70.8
8/22= 5.7 (7:39)
8/23= 5.0 (8:00)
8/24= AM 4.4 (8:23) PM 10.2 w/ 6 x 800 (2:38,34,36,36,41,39)
8/25= 10.5 (7:55)
8/26= OFF
8/27= 12.0 (7:27)
8/28= 17.0 w/ 14.0 (6:16)
Total 64.8
8/29= 18.0 (7:35)
8/30= 4.3 (8:22)
8/31= 10.8 w/ 6 x 600 (1:57,55,56,55,53,53)
9/1= 12.0 (7:03)
9/2= 6.2 (7:59)
9/3= 3.5 (8:34)
9/4= 19.3 w/ 20k (6:07)
Total 74.1
9/5= 16.0 (7:42)
9/6= 8.2 (8:01)
9/7= AM 5.0 (7:41) PM 10.5 w/ 6 x 800 (2:35,37,33,34,33,29)
9/8= 13.1 (7:40)
9/9= OFF
9/10= 5.5 (8:21)
9/11= 6.6 w/ 5k (5:25)
Total 64.9
9/12= 20.0 (6:44)
9/13= 5.0 (7:42)
9/14= 10.0 w/ 6 x 4:00 w/ 2:00 easy
9/15= OFF
9/16= 8.0 (7:30)
9/17= 5.6 (8:02)
9/18= 10.0 w/ 8k (5:48)
Total 58.6
9/19= 17.3 (7:38)
9/20= OFF
9/21= 5.0 (8:00)
9/22= 5.0 (8:24)
9/23= 5.0 (7:17) w/ 6 strides
9/24= 3.3 (7:40)
9/25= 8.2 w/ 8k (5:35)
Total 43.8
9/26= 11.3 (7:48)
9/27= OFF
9/28= 4.0 (7:50)
9/29= 6.0 w/ 2.0 (6:05)
9/30= OFF
10/1= 4.1 (7:56) w/ 5 strides
10/2= 2.0 (8:00)
Total 27.4
10/3 Lakefront 2:46:52 (6:22) 5th
A lot of speed followed by long runs gets me used to the marathon. I always post my training because I like to see what others are doing. This has seemed to help me at this distance.
Lance, yeah my splits depress me too sometimes.
ReplyDeleteMarc, yeah hopefully those winter miles will pay off come Chicago.
Thanks Double. Lots of 600s, 800s and 1200s, something I haven't been doing yet.
Ryan, I was in grad school in 1999 and basically took 2 years off. I was just getting back into running. 6 months later I ran my "standard" 6:04 pace for 8k.
Susan, I just use a log book (pen and paper-type) to track my runs. I also have an online log book, but that's more to share with others. I do track some stuff in Excel too, but if I loose it, it's not a big deal.