Peck Place Panther Pounce 5K Orange
Finish time: 23:16
Average pace: 7:29
Placed 9 out of 161.
Mid morning run, 66F, overcast, calm and coolish, flat course.
Splits 1) 7:06
2) -
3) 15:28
F) 0:40
I did an easy 3 mile warm-up to get a sense of the course.
The morning was cool and overcast, ideal for a race.
I started off at a good pace and kept good position in the field.
The field was a bit slow (lots of school kids) so I had to pay
attention to make sure I did not slow down with everyone else.
The lead woman runner passed me at mile 2 and I was not able to
catch her, but kept pace with her coming in.
I saw two guys way ahead of me whom I thought were in my age
group, but it turned out they were in the 40-49 bracket, so I
got lucky and placed 1st in the 50-59 group.
I was pleased to get close to 23 minutes, one of my better time
since spring 2014.
The good performance was probably due to being well rested, taking
two days off after the 5K on Wednesday evening.
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