{"id":819,"date":"2012-06-24T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T23:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=819"},"modified":"2012-06-24T19:23:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T23:23:42","slug":"bettered-yesterdays-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2012\/06\/24\/bettered-yesterdays-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettered Yesterday&#8217;s Race!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I ran the <a href=\"http:\/\/nyrr.org\/run-with-us\/achilles-hope-possibility-5m\" target=\"_blank\">Achilles Hope &#038; Possibility 5-Miler<\/a> in Central Park.  I ran it in 35:28 (7:06s), which bettered yesterday&#8217;s 5-mile race by 19 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my unofficial results from my Garmin:<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/192237835'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s running conditions were about the same as yesterday.  The humidity was lower (65% rather than 93%) but still noticeable, and the temperature was just a degree cooler.  It was also just about as sunny.  The course was different, though&#8211;a 5-miler focused on the lower part of the park rather than the upper part.  I believe it&#8217;s a faster course taken this way.  I&#8217;m not absolutely sure, though, because in yesterday&#8217;s race Harlem Hill was in the mix though in the beginning, so it was run fast and you get the downhill.  The 19 seconds I shaved off today might have been eaten up by Harlem Hill were I racing it today, which might actually be true because it took about 19 seconds longer to run the first mile yesterday than it did today.  Today&#8217;s first mile was a 6:36.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I was happy about being that fast out of the gate.  I knew that was fast, but I also was experimenting to see how my body in its current state handled that kind of fast start.  Sure enough, I lost some speed about where I thought I would&#8211;after the 3rd mile, which is hillier&#8211;but I also recovered after then, especially capitalizing on the downhills.  I knocked out a final sprint from a long distance today, so much so that I couldn&#8217;t sustain the sprint completely (I saw Jono splitting the runners and called his name out but he was looking the other way).  Whatever the case, my goal for today&#8211;to see if I could beat yesterday&#8217;s time over the same distance&#8211;was achieved.  I even slapped hands with Mary Wittenberg, President of NYRR, after I finished.<\/p>\n<p>My Age Grade Percentage disturbed me a bit yesterday given how low it is, but in comparing it with my prior years when I eventually did well in marathons I&#8217;m about where I was then.  That calmed my mind again, yet it also gave me a bit of a fight, not wanting this year to race in that lower tier.  I think that means speedwork or other kinds of fitness to boost my cardiovascular fitness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I ran the Achilles Hope &#038; Possibility 5-Miler in Central Park. I ran it in 35:28 (7:06s), which bettered yesterday&#8217;s 5-mile race by 19 seconds. Here are my unofficial results from my Garmin: Today&#8217;s running conditions were about the same as yesterday. The humidity was lower (65% rather than 93%) but still noticeable, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2012\/06\/24\/bettered-yesterdays-race\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bettered Yesterday&#8217;s Race!<\/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-819","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\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}