Instead of doing the Feaster Five again this year, I decided to join the group heading to Salem for the Wild Turky 5 miler. It’s been a while since I’ve run a 5 mile road race. It was a pretty chilly morning, temps were in the lower 30s. I had two goals for this race, one was make sure I beat Heidi, only because Julie kept telling me that she was going to beat me. The other goal was to try and run 7 minute miles. I knew my friend Ron was going to shoot for 7s and he is usually right on the money.<\/p>\n
Heidi and myself started right next to Ron up near the front. Ron shot out in front of us and at what felt like a pace I had no chance of keeping up. I even turned to Heidi and said, “I can’t keep this pace up for 5 miles”. Ron did slow a bit after the first half mile or so and I managed to catch up to him just as we passed mile 1. At that point we had done a 6:50 and Heidi was just behind us. We continued to do the next two miles at 6:55 and 6:57. As we started to head back on mile 4 I was feeling good and picked up the pace a little bit 6:53 and 6:45 for the last one. My official time was 34:37 and my Garmin had the course a little long at 5.07 miles.<\/p>\n
I didn’t have any issues with my IT Band, so I think I can say that it has healed up. Although I will keep up the Foam roller and stretching exercises just to be on the safe side. It’s been 8 years since I have gone under 7s in a 5 miler. Felt good and I if the weather is nice I hope to break 7s again at the Frosty Four on the same course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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