Sunday 7 March 2010

Frosty 5K race report + another gratuitous belly pic or 2

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I had 3 race strategies: 

1) run a long warmup and get everything out of my system *cough* pre-race. 
2) walk through the water station. 
3) start slow and run a negative split race. 

1.6K warmup and 3 bathroom stops later, I barely make it into the corral before the horn. I felt every single one of the 4000 calories (not exaggerating) of greasy Chinese food I ate last night still sitting in my stomach but somehow magically disappeared between the warmup and race start. I was in the 5th row, which would have gotten me killed by Kenyans in a marathon, but since no one lines up properly in a 5K, I didn't even get shoved. 

Splits (minutes per km): 
6:37 
6:51 
6:52 
6:35 
6:01 

I haven't seen a 6 as the first number of my pace for a VERY long time! The second half of the course features some mild downhills and then a mild uphill in the last kilometer, so I took it easy until the turnaround, realized I felt TOTALLY AWESOME and then turned on the afterburners as much as I could. 

Official chip time: 32:58. My slowest non-preggo 5K? 31:42. 

YES I DO HAVE A BUMP! 
 

With Beth (fingersandtoes) and Stacey (brontemom) post race: