Sheesh, maybe I should be doing some road races...

Interesting report on the Iris Festival 5k...

http://blog.oregonlive.com/runoregon/2009/05/race_report_keizer_iris_festiv.html

"...my splits (5:06, 5:19, 5:27) had hemorrhaged seconds with every mile, but I had competed and gone out hard, and that's all I could have asked."

I would guess the leader went out at 4.55 and added about 10sec a mile. Ouch.

Def. not criticizing but these guys are fast, mid 16's is super pedestrian for them, but the reason why they ran that is pure impulse control, went out "hard" and faded. Man, how many times have I done that?

Waaaay too many.

Maybe it was venue.. If it'd been a race on the track with a good sized pack runners in 3rd & 4th would have caught and dropped runners 1 & 2..

As it stands, it was road.. The leader got out far enough ahead that it was probably mentally very difficult to will themselves into a tempo that got them within striking distance.

Nah, I won't go to the roads... I would much rather lay down some good run splits later this summer.

Still, it sounded fun in that report didn't it?