Monday, April 27, 2009

Official race timings are in......

The official race timings are in and they are 28mins 48secs. This is almost 22secs better (or faster) than my previous estimate of 29:10. This means that my speed is 09:18mins/mile which is good !!!

My intentions are to run another 5K in Eden Prairie on May 16th. Hopefully, I will be able to better this time of 28:48. My goal for the upcoming race is just to run the race completely without any regard to the timing. Anything faster than 28:48 will be bonus.

I used to run about 2.3 miles until last week. This caused problems because 5K = 3.1miles and just around the 2.5mile marker, I was really tired. I wasn't sure whether I would be able to run the complete 3.1mile distance. As a result, I have started running 2.5miles and I am hoping to run at least 2.7miles as practice before the actual race. Practice runs of 2.7miles or more will give me a better endurance to run the actual 5K race. Hopefully, I will be able to run the actual 5K race in much better shape. Unless I can regularly run 5K, I cannot even dream of running a 10K. My plans were to run at least one 10K this year but that looks very ambitious now and I will have to scale back my targets for running.

However, the official race timings are making me happy and its' time to celebrate....

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