I thought I'd give my first invitational race report and let me know what you thinkand any suggestions you have. The course was 3.1miles exactly with a split between paved and hard dry grass. The winning time was just under 17 minutes (the one kid ran a 15:30 last year.) The weather was warm, but not greatly. Here is my mile splits
5:20-5:25 first mile 11:20ish and an 18:36 as a finish.
I thought the first mile was way too fast and I dropped a lot on the last one. We have another meet tuesday at our home course.
I thought I'd give my first invitational race report and let me know what you thinkand any suggestions you have. The course was 3.1miles exactly with a split between paved and hard dry grass. The winning time was just under 17 minutes (the one kid ran a 15:30 last year.) The weather was warm, but not greatly. Here is my mile splits
5:20-5:25 first mile 11:20ish and an 18:36 as a finish.
I thought the first mile was way too fast and I dropped a lot on the last one. We have another meet tuesday at our home course.
Yes, 5:20 is very fast if you're averaging a 6:00 pace. It's hard to hold back if everyone's running too fast, but it's good to keep in mind. At least compared to everyone else, hang back a bit so that you're only going moderately too fast.
I thought I'd give my first invitational race report and let me know what you thinkand any suggestions you have. The course was 3.1miles exactly with a split between paved and hard dry grass. The winning time was just under 17 minutes (the one kid ran a 15:30 last year.) The weather was warm, but not greatly. Here is my mile splits
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5:20-5:25 first mile 11:20ish and an 18:36 as a finish.
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I thought the first mile was way too fast and I dropped a lot on the last one. We have another meet tuesday at our home course.
Yes, 5:20 is very fast if you're averaging a 6:00 pace. It's hard to hold back if everyone's running too fast, but it's good to keep in mind. At least compared to everyone else, hang back a bit so that you're only going moderately too fast.
Cheers, -- Elflord
Well this comming meet I'm going to try 5:40 mile splits. It will be easier to pace since it's a duel meet and I might be the fastest then again it will be harder to run my maximum.
Gary <[email hidden]> wrote in news:1188750616.546637.282870@ 22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:
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I thought I'd give my first invitational race report and let me know what you thinkand any suggestions you have. The course was 3.1miles exactly with a split between paved and hard dry grass. The winning time was just under 17 minutes (the one kid ran a 15:30 last year.) The weather was warm, but not greatly. Here is my mile splits
5:20-5:25 first mile 11:20ish and an 18:36 as a finish.
I thought the first mile was way too fast and I dropped a lot on the last one. We have another meet tuesday at our home course.
Oh. Excuse me. I made a mistake. When I saw the title of the thread was 'Race Report,' I thought it was going to be a chance to express my feelings about the chinques and [censored] and niggars.
Well this comming meet I'm going to try 5:40 mile splits. It will be
That's a 17:30 pace -- kind of fast coming off an 18:36.
You could instead try to hit the first mile in 6:00 and try to pick it up from there. That would still be fast enough to give yourself a shot at 17:30, and you're going to be passing people in the last 2 miles that way. That's going to feel really slow, but you'll run a faster time that way, and they will come back to you.
