Triing

Small local race at the elementary school. This was a PR for me, I figure I will probably have a PR in most races for the next few years until I reach my top fitness. The race was fun, It went right through my neighborhood so I knew all of the streets we were running on. I think this was a little to close to my half marathon two weeks ago. I had hoped to do better but my legs just weren't up to it. My average heart rate was 169 and my max HR 185. I'm not sure if this is to high for a 51 year old man but I didn't feel like my heart was beating out of my chest, I was breathing hard for a lot of the race but I expect to do that on a race of this length. My heart rate did go back down to normal fairly quickly after the race.

The race was fun but they failed to mark a turn at the 5K point and the first runners ended up running extra. I ran an extra half mile but the first 5 to 10 runners went even further then that. When we got back to were we should have turned they had started sending the runners at the correct place. I don't know how many of the runners finishing before me had missed the turn but I think only about 15 were ahead of me before the mixup. I didn't intend to run a hard race but just run 9:00 miles. I was doing about 8:55 miles when a reached 5 miles and then slowed for the last half mile.

My seven year old son ran in the fun run and did really well. He was realy excited to get a ribbon at the conclusion of the run. Caiden is autistic and it was great to see him out there doing his best to run the race.

We had a fun time after the race going through the corn maze and other attactions at Black Island Farms since the race entry included entry for the whole family.