We took the family down to the 2nd annual Folsom Turkey Trot this morning... it was a lot of fun! The race has really grown and the ~3000 runners is a bit much for the course that winds through the trails around Folsom. Regardless, we had a good time. Granpa pushed the kiddos in the double stroller, Grandma ran the 5K, my wife ran the 10K, and I ran the 10K. Good times had by all, in both senses of the word. Emily put together a 52 minute 10K, which is not her fastest, but still quite good considering she had a baby 7 months ago. Also, she will be running the marathon next weekend, so this was a good higher intensity run during her brief taper. I was hoping to do a 10K PR. My current best is 39:30 at last year's Run to Feed the Hungry downtown. We decided to do the Folsom race this year because it is closer to home and we thought would be less crowded. Well, not really. When the 10K course merged back together with the 5K course, I had to weave in and out passing all kinds of people. In some cases, it seemed like they had the whole trail walled off intentionally. In any case, I still did really well.
I started off quite fast and hit the first mile in about 6 minutes. At that point, I was feeling great. Well, of course, it's only one mile. So I kept it up as best I could. I started with the very first runners and tried to hang as long as I could. I ended up in a group of about 3-4 runners that was falling behind the lead group. At 2 miles, I was just under 12 minutes. Miles 3 and 4 had a tad more up and down, so I was up to about 24 and change at mile 4. I was hoping to get below 39 and was really hoping for a 37:xx, but knew that would be tough. My HR hovered around 170 for most of the race, which didn't feel that bad actually. Through miles 4 and 5, there was one guy on my heels as I continued to pace us. When we got to 5.5, he really kicked it up a notch and I tried to hang with him. My HR kicked up to 180 as I came up the final finishing hill, but I couldn't stay with him... crap. Oh well. I crossed the line and had 38:52 on my watch. My chip time was 38:49, so I was pretty happy with that. I think I could've done about 30 seconds faster had I not been dodging 5K'ers for the last 2 miles. I was 3rd in the 30 year old male age group and 12th overall, my best finish for a running race!! I *think* I could take another minute or two off that time if I really worked at it. I haven't been doing any speed work lately so this result is just from the warm-up runs I've been doing and the bricks. Perhaps the PowerCranks really are helping my run!? My next race will be the Carlsbad Half Marathon at the end of January and then probably another half marathon in March at Shamrock'n. I want to see if I can break 1:25 at either of those runs. We'll see.
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