{"id":822,"date":"2012-07-21T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=822"},"modified":"2012-07-21T19:41:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T23:41:48","slug":"pr-pr-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2012\/07\/21\/pr-pr-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"PR! PR! WTF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrr.org\/run-with-us\/run-to-breathe\" target=\"_blank\">Boomer&#8217;s Cystic Fibrosis Run to Breathe 10K<\/a> in Central Park.  I ran it in 42:51 (6:55s), which is a race PR for me for this distance.<\/p>\n<p>(And I don&#8217;t know how I did it!)<\/p>\n<p>Here are my unofficial Garmin stats.  I turned off my Garmin after the finish line.<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/201463323'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There were some wonderful components going into today&#8217;s race.  First, it was extraordinarily cool&#8211;65 degrees at the start, with the 87% humidity unnoticeable.  Second, I was grumpy and tired and not in a good mood to race, which historically tends to say I&#8217;ll do well.  I was also rested for two days after a 16-mile run in 98-degree heat at the worst, which may have toughened me up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I started out this race with pretty low expectations.  I actually thought I might just jog this one and have fun with it.  However, I ended up basically at the start line and my cardiovascular fitness seemed pretty good in the first mile, so I thought that maybe I should push myself.  I also tried out a new strategy I&#8217;ve figured out on my long fun: to actually <em>get excited<\/em> when my brain presents me with issues about my run.  I realized that I should get excited because when I&#8217;m sedentary, I&#8217;m not presented with running challenges, so running gets me to different mental places and challenges me to get by them.<\/p>\n<p>My first mile was done in 6:32, and I only lost about a second in my second mile.  In my third mile, which included Harlem Hill, I told myself to slow down around the pool area so that I could build up some energy to climb Harlem Hill a bit faster.  It kinda worked: I slowed myself down and a lot of people passed me, and then when I hit the hill I tried to sprint a bit up it.  I didn&#8217;t overtake many people and eventually lost some steam about halfway up it, but all in all that mile was done in 7:07, which was a positive surprise.  A negative surprise was the next mile, which turned into a 7:25.  I think that was because I didn&#8217;t have as much fight in me during that mile, but losing about 20 seconds (which I interpreted as 30 seconds) suggested to me I wasn&#8217;t going to have much speed the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>However, I didn&#8217;t let that happen.  I challenged myself to fight, and when I saw that I was crossing the 5-mile mark at 34:45, I figured that I might be able to finish a little above 41 minutes, which I knew would be incredible.  I kept up the pressure on myself hard, trying to shave off footsteps and run smartly (because extra footsteps and lost tangents could mean a lot).  Toward the end a man was challenging me and pulled ahead&#8211;I don&#8217;t remember if I caught him at the end.  Why?  Because a tall speedy guy directly challenged me and we fought to finish before each other.  I felt him and myself lock into each other as we sprinted, and he was taller and stronger than me and lost me but it was thrilling.  I crossed the finish line in my typical loss-of-breath\/must-lose-shirt feeling, and I saw Jono and grasped his hand.  I later thanked the guy who sprinted with me, and I thought I have have PR&#8217;d.<\/p>\n<p>I had &#8230; if you don&#8217;t count longer races where I probably did a faster 10K.  I am thrilled to drive down my Central Park 10K time, and to think that I did it without running as much mileage yet this training period and weighing just shy of 177 lbs. this morning, which is a lot heavier than I want to be.  The temperature helped and the rest helped, but apart from those two factors, I am baffled that I could accomplish this fast of time at this state of my body.  Will I ever run a sub-40:00 10K?  I&#8217;m curious!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I ran Boomer&#8217;s Cystic Fibrosis Run to Breathe 10K in Central Park. I ran it in 42:51 (6:55s), which is a race PR for me for this distance. (And I don&#8217;t know how I did it!) Here are my unofficial Garmin stats. I turned off my Garmin after the finish line. There were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2012\/07\/21\/pr-pr-wtf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PR! PR! WTF?!<\/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":[5,3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10ks","category-races","tag-boomers-run-to-breathe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}