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captainsblogThe results are in from last weekend, and it's official- I clocked in 269th out of 284 entrants in my first 5K, but I officially beat 45 minutes, and Kimmy somehow leapfrogged to 263rd even though we both thought I finished first. Still, it's a personal best to beat, and I'm thinking maybe something in August, when my niece and I might actually be in the same state for a day or so.
I'm still doing the app, although I've backed down to the 3-a-week pace I was supposed to be on all along. In fact, I largely repeated week four because I was hitting major wall running between 2 and 4 minutes. One thing I learned from the actual 5K is, at least among the non-competitive pack, how "running" is NOT a 30-minute sprint, but rather a jogging pace not that much faster than a walk. Once that translates onto the actual street, it's much easier.
I doubt, though, I will ever be doing a 30-minute race without at least some slowdowns. So far, I still need the slowdowns at least to something of a fast walk- but there are also the distractions. In a month or so of doing this, I've encountered various dogs, bunnies, deer, ducks and, again today, a sauntering bunch of geese and goslings, massively pissing off an in-a-hurry driver on Park Club. But there are also the totally unexpected sights, such as this one, planted out in front of a house around the corner from us:
Along with it at the curb was a dull Dell CPU from probably the early oughts, but who needs THAT crap? This is a collectible, man:) The processor has a single bitchin' 5-inch floppy drive, those F keys on the right look like they could launch some serious ICBMs, and God love 'em they've got a dedicated £ key on there!
You KNOW I've got to find a monitor to hook to it and turn it on, right? Either it'll prompt for a missing system disk, or maybe, just maybe, a blue light will come on up top and I'll wind up back in 1981.
I'm still doing the app, although I've backed down to the 3-a-week pace I was supposed to be on all along. In fact, I largely repeated week four because I was hitting major wall running between 2 and 4 minutes. One thing I learned from the actual 5K is, at least among the non-competitive pack, how "running" is NOT a 30-minute sprint, but rather a jogging pace not that much faster than a walk. Once that translates onto the actual street, it's much easier.
I doubt, though, I will ever be doing a 30-minute race without at least some slowdowns. So far, I still need the slowdowns at least to something of a fast walk- but there are also the distractions. In a month or so of doing this, I've encountered various dogs, bunnies, deer, ducks and, again today, a sauntering bunch of geese and goslings, massively pissing off an in-a-hurry driver on Park Club. But there are also the totally unexpected sights, such as this one, planted out in front of a house around the corner from us:
Along with it at the curb was a dull Dell CPU from probably the early oughts, but who needs THAT crap? This is a collectible, man:) The processor has a single bitchin' 5-inch floppy drive, those F keys on the right look like they could launch some serious ICBMs, and God love 'em they've got a dedicated £ key on there!
You KNOW I've got to find a monitor to hook to it and turn it on, right? Either it'll prompt for a missing system disk, or maybe, just maybe, a blue light will come on up top and I'll wind up back in 1981.