Last Saturday, I took second overall at the Ritley Run 5-K at Perry High School with a 19:12 time!
It's a fast course and I finished it five seconds faster than last year when I also took second place with a 19:17.
This race is really a nice community event as there is a 1.5 mile fun walk and small dashes across the football field for young children, who each receive a finisher's medal.
The weekend before Sunday Sept. 12, I ran the half marathon at Presque Isle in Erie, Pa. I was doing great for the first seven miles then my left leg tightened up and I had to drop down from my 7:30/mile pace down to about an 8 minute pace.
I said goodbye to the pace group I had found, hoping to break 1:40. But I managed to gut it out and finish in a respectable 1:42:05
I finished in 65th place overall out of 694 total finishers so ending up in the top 10 percent is a pretty good showing. My age group at this distance is also very competitive as I finished tenth.
Runners World Quote of the Day:
"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."
Jesse Owens, American track and field athlete and Olympic gold medal winner
Happy running!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Miller Paul Marut 5-K
Yesterday was the fourth annual Miller Paul Marut Memorial 5-K run in Concord Township.
This is always a nice event for a good cause as the proceeds raised go to help Riverside Local School District in memory of Miller Paul Marut who died from SIDS as a young infant to a Concord Township couple.
This course is an out and back 3.1 mile run that is mainly downhill with some rolling hills on the way out, then of course, some rolling hills and mainly uphill the way back.
I ran a 6:09 split for mile one and I was cooking down the hills. Reality set in, and so did the hills, and I finished mile two in 6:59 and the last 1.1 miles was in about 7:22. So my pace was pretty consistent, considering the first mile was just about all downhill.
Overall, I finished the race in an unofficial time of 20:32. I think I also took fourth in my age group, missing out on a medal by about 10 seconds or so.
I'll post a little more once I have the official results.
Runners World Quote of the Day:
"The great advantage of our sport over all others is that we don't need a ball or a team or a field, or even, according to some, shoes. We just need to stand someplace, imagine ourselves in the center of a circle, pick one out of the 360 degrees available to us, and head thataway."
Peter Sagal, a 3:20 marathoner and the host of NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Happy running!
This is always a nice event for a good cause as the proceeds raised go to help Riverside Local School District in memory of Miller Paul Marut who died from SIDS as a young infant to a Concord Township couple.
This course is an out and back 3.1 mile run that is mainly downhill with some rolling hills on the way out, then of course, some rolling hills and mainly uphill the way back.
I ran a 6:09 split for mile one and I was cooking down the hills. Reality set in, and so did the hills, and I finished mile two in 6:59 and the last 1.1 miles was in about 7:22. So my pace was pretty consistent, considering the first mile was just about all downhill.
Overall, I finished the race in an unofficial time of 20:32. I think I also took fourth in my age group, missing out on a medal by about 10 seconds or so.
I'll post a little more once I have the official results.
Runners World Quote of the Day:
"The great advantage of our sport over all others is that we don't need a ball or a team or a field, or even, according to some, shoes. We just need to stand someplace, imagine ourselves in the center of a circle, pick one out of the 360 degrees available to us, and head thataway."
Peter Sagal, a 3:20 marathoner and the host of NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Happy running!
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