Finished my first 10k. It felt good and I was happy to have the experience in it. My training program recommended that I do it and I'm glad I did because it made me realize that while I do want to finish the half marathon I might change up my training strategy a bit. Now not only do I want to finish it but maybe I want to do a little better on my time. We'll see because a half marathon is quite a bit longer than the 10k!
I am using as inspiration a 75 year old who finished about 15 minutes faster than I did in the 10k. I think it's awesome that a 75 year old is still out running and there were a few of them! I hope I'm stilling moving at that age!
I kept a pretty steady pace of about 30 seconds faster per minute than my normal training pace, but it was remarkable to see as I headed out the mile or so of runners ahead of me. (I started at the very back of the mass of people because I don't really enjoy being in the midst of it all.) Then when I got to about mile 2.5 the lead runners were sprinter back. (It was an out and back.) They were really giving it their all and it was pretty cool to see them still going strong about their mile 4. :-)
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