On January 22 I ran my first race of the year. I am have been successful in keeping to my one race per month in 2012 resolution. 11 more races and months to go.
I arrived on site at Creekside Community Centre one hour before the race and scored a cherry parking spot. Finding parking is always something that causes me some stress. I had contemplated taking Skytrain but the closest station to the race start was over 1km away and there was no bag check.
When I arrived, I sat in the car for a while and took these photos.
The weather was quite windy and rainy although it was not particularly cold. I wore a toque, capri tights, long sleeve shirt and a vest to start and ended the race holding my toque because it was warm.
Maybe cause of the weather, I took off quickly (faster than my race plan) and figured I would just go until I needed to slow down. Below are my KM splits
Split
|
Time
|
Distance
|
Avg Pace
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | 51:36.2 | 9.76 | 5:17 |
| 1 | 5:04.9 | 1.00 | 5:05 |
| 2 | 4:59.6 | 1.00 | 5:00 |
| 3 | 5:08.7 | 1.00 | 5:09 |
| 4 | 5:17.7 | 1.00 | 5:18 |
| 5 | 5:24.3 | 1.00 | 5:24 |
| 6 | 5:14.4 | 1.00 | 5:14 |
| 7 | 5:30.9 | 1.00 | 5:31 |
| 8 | 5:30.4 | 1.00 | 5:30 |
| 9 | 5:26.3 | 1.00 | 5:26 |
| 10 | 3:59.0 | 0.76 |
I finished the race spent but feeling like I had run a solid race. Certainly still opportunity to get my pacing under control. I get wrapped up in the race atmosphere and take off too quick.
It was great to run a small, flat, fast and local race.
My official time was 51:38 (a PR for me). I came 6/20 in my AG (40-49) and 17/65 in the 10km race.
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