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RHIC 5k

October 18, 2019 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Glad I could make it to the Healthfest 5k with Gui. It was just a beautiful weather day. IDK how productive I was but I needed to get a good run in. We did a little warm up to the start near 5th. Decent number of folks showed up which is great. I know what kinda of shape Im in and I wanted to be realistic. Gui was going for a good pace. Route was perfect, start near the ring, do the two mile loop and pop back out. Starting out it separated fast, some guy went way out then Gui took it ahead and I lagged behind. Another guy came up by the 1k mark, which we hit at 4:00 exactly and took the lead. I started to tail off there and entered a more comfortable pace and the pack spread out. Didnt feel great, had some cramps coming and going and the wind definitely chopped my rhythm up a bit. After a 6 min first mile, came through two at 7 min and knew I was lagging. I just wanted to finish at that point. A weird mentality compared to what I remember from the racing days... Anyways I held it together but could tell I was struggling during the last mile. Not 100% confident they had it mapped out correctly because my last mile definitely felt the slowest. HR was at 164 at the end, which is around tempo pace, so thats encouraging. We rehydrated and waited as the rest of the runners came through. I recovered pretty quickly, again reasonable if that was tempo pace. We cooled down the long way back to the beamline and I am glad we did, helped shake out the aches.

Essentials: Stretch

Stretched and watered up again when we got back. Shins fine no splints and everything else good. Felt like I got a good run in not beat up from a hardcore race, but its always great to get a bit of speed under your belt. Had to enjoy the great weather today as well.