Long story short I knocked a highly controlled 28min 8k, good for 13th overall. What's interesting was I had little idea of how well or not I would do, the entire idea was just to benchmark run fitness, run controlled and possibly have some fun in the last mile.
(No fun in the last mile (meaning kicking), though I did pull away from the "chase group" as soon as we hit Naito/Front and was surprised that nobody came with me or try to chase me down)
In retrospect, considering how easy it was I should have run with the group that split off the front and gone for top 5-ish, it's always easy in retrospect to say this though !
More interestingly I'm on a weekly mileage plan of about 25miles, MAX. No kidding.. That doesn't take into the swim & bike aerobic volume of course, but still, I'm happy with how easy that was off the current volume.
Still no firm plans around racing, I think it's going to be a fun summer for me though, pick and choose stuff that I like, places I haven't been, etc.
2 comments:
Nice race Joe. Good job leaving the "chase pack" in your glitter!!
Seriously though, I saw what you were (not) wearing and thought to myself "oh Joe was just out having a good time being festive and all, cool". Then I looked at results later that night and thought to myself "I would have been pretty annoyed if i was running a 29min pace all out, and dude in glitter and speedo just smoked me!" LOL.
Josh, thanks, I was having a grand old time. :)
You did pretty well yourself !
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