NIA Jingle Bell Run 5K Nichols
Warm-up: 3 easy miles
Warm-down: 1 easy mile
Finish time: 24:52
Mid morning race, high 30's, sunny & dry.
Splits: 1) 7:43
2) 8:27 (Mile 1 marker was a bit off.)
3) 7:56
F) 0:48
According to a few runners around me at the 1 mile mark, the
mile marker was a bit off so my first split seemed fast and
the second correspondingly slow.
I ran this race back in 2010 in a time of 23:43.0, so a bit slower this
year but overall, age considered, a decent time.
The course has a good hill in the second mile which adds 10-20 seconds to the
overall time.
The field was pretty competitive so I was pleased to be 100/641, top 16%.
My immediate goal is to get my time down to 24:00 and eventually closer to 23:00.
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