{"id":370,"date":"2010-06-27T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T17:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=370"},"modified":"2010-06-27T13:38:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T17:38:34","slug":"pushed-gained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/06\/27\/pushed-gained\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushed &#038; Gained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I completed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrr.org\/races\/2010\/r0627x00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Achilles Hope &#038; Possibility 5-Miler<\/a> in Central Park.  It was 77 degrees at the start, overcast, and about 65% humidity.  I tried pushing myself today to do better than last weekend&#8217;s 5-mile race.  The course was a different direction than last weekend&#8217;s course, and that course may have given me an advantage with a beginning fast downhill.  Despite that boost, I felt I raced faster, a push that showed in my official results: I ran the 5-miler in 35:07, equating to doing 7:01s.<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial Results per Garmin:<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/38332957'><\/iframe><br \/>\nSince I completed my long run a little more than 12 hours before, I was still a bit sore.  My right leg felt a little injured but warming up helped it.  By race time, it seemed ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>With a lot of disabled athletes on the field, the race was a bit like an obstacle course.  There were runners in wheelchairs, runners with blades, blind runners, and runners with an assortment of disabilities, and passing them made me a little nervous out of fear I might knock one down or trip one up.  In the end, a older blind runner with his 3-man guide crew overtook me in the last couple of miles and I never caught him.  That&#8217;s a testament to just how disabled a disabled runner may be: Not very! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>But today&#8217;s results showed a gain in my training.  I pushed myself and maintained a better pace over the course.  I got my first mile out in 6:38 (N.B. there was a downhill beginning), and other miles were pretty fast, including two other miles done in sub-7:00s.  My official pace is slower than the pace my Garmin measured (6:59s), which is a little disappointing but what can you do but get better. After the race was finished, I set to my mind to hit the gym, but mounting the subways steps, I decided against it given how tired my legs and brain felt.  I eventually grabbed much-needed nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I completed the Achilles Hope &#038; Possibility 5-Miler in Central Park. It was 77 degrees at the start, overcast, and about 65% humidity. I tried pushing myself today to do better than last weekend&#8217;s 5-mile race. The course was a different direction than last weekend&#8217;s course, and that course may have given me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/06\/27\/pushed-gained\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushed &#038; Gained<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-milers","category-races"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}