Race report

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What's the temp in Arizona today ~ ?

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Twittering One said:

What's the temp in Arizona today ~ ?

Right now on my back porch, it is 101.8 in the shade. According to
weather.com, the temp at Chandler Regional airport is 100, and the the
high will be 115.

The temperature at the race was in the mid 80s or so.

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Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

Michelle said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Twittering One said:

What's the temp in Arizona today ~ ?

Right now on my back porch, it is 101.8 in the shade. According to
weather.com, the temp at Chandler Regional airport is 100, and the the
high will be 115.

Quoted message said:

I bet it's 98.6° in the vicinity of that couch.

Michelle said:

I ran in race 3 of the Arizona Road Racer's Summer Series today. It,
like the other four races in the series, was a 5K. Based on past
performance and on my training runs since the last race, I had estimated
that I would do about a 14:15 mile pace, and hoped to do a 14:00 mile
pace.

The course was at the Victory Sports Center in Glendale, AZ. <a
href="http://www.arizonaroadracers.com/ss3-map.pdf">Course map</a>.

I did better than I had hoped: 13:14 minute mile, 41:07 total. This is
a personal record for this distance. My best previous 5K was 13:41 per
mile, and that was in December, when it was much cooler. My splits were

split pace
1 12:39
2 13:00
3 14:05
4 12:53

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Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

Congratulations on a PR! Training shows in improvements in races. keep
it up.

Only one problem with your report: where's the color commentary? The
valiant struggle, the sights, the sounds? 8^)

Enjoy the run,
ed

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ed Prochak said:

Congratulations on a PR! Training shows in improvements in races.
keep it up.

Thanks.

Quoted message said:

Only one problem with your report: where's the color commentary? The
valiant struggle, the sights, the sounds? 8^)

Running on a dirt path in the middle of a desert doesn't have much in
the way of sights and sounds to report.

A small portion of the race was on 43rd Avenue, and apparently no one
thought to put up anything to block vehicular traffic, so we had one SUV
driving through us in our direction, and one sedan driving through us in
the opposite direction. Other than having to inhale exhaust fumes a
bit, nothing untoward happened.

Oh, there was one thing. Someone from one of the local email lists that
I'm on came out to watch, and she got about a dozen people to cheer me
in with her as neared the finish line--maybe a hundred feet from it.
When I heard and saw them, I managed to open up and sprint (well, for me
it was a sprint) the rest of the way in--it might have shaved a second
or three off my time.

The final results:
Place: 697/733
Gender: 273/302
AG: 8/9
Gun: 42:32
Chip: 41:10
Pace: 13:15

--
Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

Michelle said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ed Prochak said:

Congratulations on a PR! Training shows in improvements in races.
keep it up.

Thanks.

Quoted message said:

Only one problem with your report: where's the color commentary? The
valiant struggle, the sights, the sounds? 8^)

Running on a dirt path in the middle of a desert doesn't have much in
the way of sights and sounds to report.

A small portion of the race was on 43rd Avenue, and apparently no one
thought to put up anything to block vehicular traffic, so we had one SUV
driving through us in our direction, and one sedan driving through us in
the opposite direction. Other than having to inhale exhaust fumes a
bit, nothing untoward happened.

Oh, there was one thing. Someone from one of the local email lists that
I'm on came out to watch, and she got about a dozen people to cheer me
in with her as neared the finish line--maybe a hundred feet from it.
When I heard and saw them, I managed to open up and sprint (well, for me
it was a sprint) the rest of the way in--it might have shaved a second
or three off my time.

Cool!!

Quoted message said:

The final results:
Place: 697/733
Gender: 273/302
AG: 8/9
Gun: 42:32
Chip: 41:10
Pace: 13:15

And a strong finish is always a good thing.

Quoted message said:

--
Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

Nice signature. Thanks for the race report Michelle.
Ed.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ed Prochak said:

Quoted message said:

Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

Nice signature.

And it's original with me--well, the second part of it is, anyway.

Quoted message said:

Thanks for the race report Michelle.

De nada.

--
Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

Congrats Michelle! Sorry I'm late responding, weirdly enough the
original race report is coming to me as "expired"! I think the
server's whacko. I wanted to read and respond yesterday and only
got to read it from the recent replies.

You ran *quite* a lot faster than your hoped-for! That's really
great, esp in our weather. Congratulations on the PR!! WooHoo!

Teresa in AZ (too)

Quoted message said:

Michelle said:

I ran in race 3 of the Arizona Road Racer's Summer Series today. It,
like the other four races in the series, was a 5K. Based on past
performance and on my training runs since the last race, I had estimated
that I would do about a 14:15 mile pace, and hoped to do a 14:00 mile
pace.

The course was at the Victory Sports Center in Glendale, AZ. <a
href="http://www.arizonaroadracers.com/ss3-map.pdf">Course map</a>.

I did better than I had hoped: 13:14 minute mile, 41:07 total. This is
a personal record for this distance. My best previous 5K was 13:41 per
mile, and that was in December, when it was much cooler. My splits were

split pace
1 12:39
2 13:00
3 14:05
4 12:53

In article <[email hidden]>,

Teresa Bippert-Plymate said:

You ran *quite* a lot faster than your hoped-for! That's really
great, esp in our weather. Congratulations on the PR!! WooHoo!

Thanks. Frankly, I was very surprised that I did so well. This was
only my fourth race, and my third 5K. My previous PR for 5K was on
December 2nd--13:32 pace, but the temperature was much cooler. I did a
14:00 last month. My PR for any distance was 13:00 for 3 miles on New
Years Eve in 55 degree weather.

I expect that my times will get better as the temperature goes down. In
the meantime, I'm doing better each time in this hot weather. I managed
to go 2.6 miles today; it was 91 degrees when I left the house, and 96
when I got back home. On Monday, I was able to do only 2.1 miles in the
same temperature.

--
Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.