Wish me luck for the Revolutionary Run tomorrow - Wash Cross, PA - 10K

[Linda & Pete]

I'll need it - first 10K ever for me!!!!!!!!!! But, happy
that I"m trying. Dh is also jumping on my bandwagon and
doing it but he's a marathoner so the distance is no biggie
for him. I'm of the "Penguin" running school so I hope to do
between 10-11 minutes - why is that fast for me? Yuck - but,
I'll report what happens!!!!!!!!!!! - Linda

PS: Did anyone read that book "The Courage to Start" and if
so, what did they think?

[Jr]

"Linda & Pete" <abbeyainsley@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I'll need it - first 10K ever for me!!!!!!!!!! But, happy
> that I"m trying.

Good luck! I know a guy doing that. His wife is going to
walk the 5K, so they might be finishing at the same time.

> Dh is also jumping on my bandwagon and doing it but he's a
> marathoner so the distance is no biggie for him.

The distance might not be a big deal, but he can still "beat
himself up" and run fast. He'll be just as tired as you if
he goes "all out".

[Miss Anne Throp]

Break a leg!

[Phil M.]

One dark day on Usenet, "JR" <jrich7970@hotmail.com> said
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> The distance might not be a big deal, but he can still
> "beat himself up" and run fast. He'll be just as tired as
> you if he goes "all out".

Oh yes. The intense pain of running an all-out 5K is quite
different than the mind-numbing discomfort experienced in
the marathon. Personally, I'd rather run farther and slower.

Phil M.

--
The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as
fighting well.

Baron De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games

[Jr]

"Phil M." <pmarg@charter.net> wrote in message
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> One dark day on Usenet, "JR" <jrich7970@hotmail.com> said
> news:7tGdnYy6U9rvnnXd4p2dnA@comcast.com:
>
> > The distance might not be a big deal, but he can still
> > "beat himself up" and run fast. He'll be just as tired
> > as you if he goes "all out".
>
> Oh yes. The intense pain of running an all-out 5K is
> quite different than the mind-numbing discomfort
> experienced in the marathon. Personally, I'd rather run
> farther and slower.

Oh yes is right...I haven't run a marathon yet, but I have
run 13+ miles training in a shade under 2 hours, and I was
uncomfortable. But not anywhere NEAR as uncomfortable (well,
in pain) as I was last weekend, in my first 10K. I set a 50
minute goal for myself. I knew I had to run at an
8:02 pace, so I called that 8:00 to make things easy for me,
give a little cushion of a few seconds.

So, I started out at 7:45 for the first mile! WAY too fast.
I slowed just a little. There was no mile marker at mile 2.
Race organizers made a boo-boo, and where I THOUGHT mile 2
was was really a little further down the road, so I looked
at my watch and paniced. Picked up the pace. The rest of the
race I kept on (somehow) an almost exact 8 minute pace (but
was 30 seconds ahead of that because of the first mile and
the panicing, ie., mile 3 was 23:30, mile 4 was 31:30,
etc.). At the very end, we turned onto an athletic field
with no shade, that had been watered about 2 hours prior,
and was a bit squishy, sun beating down, humid...UGH! Well,
I ran with all I had and came in at 48:55. But, I literally,
never ran so hard in my life for such a sustained amount of
time. I took me two days to recover, and i still have a
slight pain in my upper left leg.

Hope it's not there for tomorrow, when I go for a 10 mile
run.