Another race day recap

Because I'm too lazy to write the same thing in a different way, here's the recap I wrote regarding my 5K race this morning on my favorite Jogging/Running message board:

It was hard. Really hard. It started about half way down a relatively steep hill so everyone was pretty much guaranteed to take off way too quickly. I was no exception.

After that strange downhill start it just stayed crazy hilly. According to my Garmin the grade got as high as 18%, and it got there twice, which I think is nuts for a race. To cap it off, the last half mile or so featured the entire hill we ran down to start, and then a steady incline up to the finish line.

I knew the race was going to be tough, but I didn't think it was going to be that tough.

It was a new event and from what I understand only about 150 or so people signed up [actually, there were 186 finishers]. If they want to grow the race they're going to have to do something about the course, IMO. A friend of mine was there and she was over 2 minutes off her PR too. It's not fun to get your butt kicked by a 5K.

Anyway, I came in right around 25:00, give or take a couple seconds (haven't seen the official time yet and it wasn't chip timed). Well off my PR, but still reasonably respectable considering the challenge of the route. Plus, I'm having a little lingering foot pain, even though I think I'm pretty much over it.

Not too exciting, but I got a pretty cool shirt out of it (although it's white). The bib number was just a plain number though. No logos or name of the race or anything.

So there you have it, another race down. Nothing left between me and my half marathon next weekend other than 12 miles tomorrow morning and a simplified "taper" schedule for the rest of the week.

I fly to Boston on Friday afternoon. Looking forward to the run and the weekend away.