Terrible day at the track today. I had my first ever DNF in a race. I just melted down about a mile and a half in and could not bring myself to finish the final 300 meters. I’m hoping it was just the heat and humidity, I think it is more the humidity which was almost 80% than the heat which was only 70 degrees.
5000 meters on the track coming up this weekend. 12 1/2 times around the loop. I’ve never raced more than 2 miles on the track so this should be an interesting experience. The plan is to run 80 second laps over and over and over which will put me at 16:40.
I got off to a rocky start in the McMullen Mile. Starting in the 14 spot out of 15 I bumped and jostled my way to a painfully slow 37 starting 200. I did manage to come through the 400 in 69 but I expended way to much energy doing it. I ended up running a respectable 4:41 which was 6 seconds faster than I ran in March at the indoor master’s national championship. I’m going to have to start doing some push ups, my arms were on fire the last half of the race. I was worrying more about my arms than my legs which is odd for a runner.
June 23rd I’m going to run a 1000 meter race with the hopes of breaking my 800 meter record at the split. Next up after that is the USATF Niagara 5000 meter championships. This is going to be held on the Naz track June 27th. Hopefully I can get a ride so I won’t have to bike 9 miles before the race (Lisa is going away with the car).
Negative splits. It is what everyone always tells you to run in distance racing, and it is what no one ever does. I will do my very best to run run negative splits at the upcoming McMullen Mile. I hope to break 4:40 and the only way I am going to do that is if I have something left for the last 600 meters of the race.
Goal Splits
69
70
69
68
I’ll report back on Thursday night.
Love Golf? Love Camp Segowea? Hate Golf but play the stupid game anyway?
If so sign up for the 1st annual Swing for Segowea Golf Tournament on June 13th 2009. This is a fund raiser for Camp Segowea being hosted by Kathy Glebatis at Vassar College Golf Course. Please see this registration form for details.
Bear Says Come Play! ROARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
It was a great day for Team Perks at the Lilac 5k on May 17th (results here). I won my age group and my Dad won his age group as well. In addition to age group wins we took first place in the Father/Son division of family team scoring with a combined time of 38:17, 30 seconds faster than the younger team of the Foxes.
I still felt a bit flat from the half, and from lack of good training the last 2 weeks but I hope to have a good bounce back race in 3 weeks.
I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them.- Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451.
It would appear that after six years (3 of which I didn’t run) I have gained a few steps rather than lost them. Yesterday at the Grand Island Half Marathon in Buffalo New York managed a time of 1:20:20, 20 seconds faster than my previous best time which I ran back in April of 2003.
Half way point of the Grand Island Half Marathon
The course was a flat out and back on a perfect day to run. While I fell short of my goal to break into the 1 hour and teens, I was very happy with my overall performance. Were it not for one 6:32 split between mile 6-7 I would have run my time. A race like this is all about focus and loosing it for just a short period of time can have drastic results.
Overall Results can be found here
Next up Lilac 5K May 17th.
I took first place at the Daniel’s 5K Road Race today. This was a well run race for a good cause (both my personal cause of raising money for Camp Segowea, and the organizers cause of raising money for skin cancer research.) The conditions were dreadful, rain snow and a 30mph headwind from .5 miles to 1.5 miles. Many of the runners were high school kids who spend much of there prerace time eating free donuts, but a few of them did seem to take the race seriously.
Next up the Parkinson Canal 5k road race. Don’t forget you can make a $15 donate to camp segowea by sponsoring me to run in this race. Just click the running tab on the top of the page.