{"id":841,"date":"2012-09-15T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=841"},"modified":"2012-09-15T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T19:05:18","slug":"a-little-heavy-not-quite-a-pr-but-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2012\/09\/15\/a-little-heavy-not-quite-a-pr-but-alright\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Heavy, Not Quite a PR, But Alright &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I ran the men&#8217;s version of the Fitness Mind, Body, Spirit Games 4-Miler in Central Park.  I ran it in 26:31 (6:38s).<\/p>\n<p>Below are my unoffficial Garmin stats.  I forgot to turn off my watch right after the race so the end time and true distance is compromised a little bit:<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/222840865'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The weather was quite gorgeous though I didn&#8217;t quite get to notice it as I raced to get to the start line before the corrals closed.  I set out on bike this morning to the race, but just before I left I found out that (again) my Garmin 610 discharged while it was charging so I took a few minutes to see how much juice I could get into it.  I got into my corral with 30 seconds to spare before they were supposed to be closed!  A bit hectic but probably a good thing so I didn&#8217;t stew impatiently for the start.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, I was off.  My first mile was a fast 6:22, which was exciting to see but implied it would be hard to beat my PR for this race (6:22s back in 2009 for a 25:29).  I thought my second mile would be on that pace, and while it was a 6:25 that wasn&#8217;t so bad.  However, mile 3 is the toughest of this course, and sure enough I lost a lot of my speed there.  I ran 7:05 (ugh!) for my 3rd mile given all the hills, but I also felt that my body was slower, too, and I couldn&#8217;t get it going much faster.  That feeling, plus the large number of men who were speeding past me even at my fastest, reduced my confidence to achieve a PR (not that I really believed I could today) which almost zapped my speed.  I was able to push myself a bit more in the 4th mile (6:42), with an exciting sprint at the end when I was challenged by someone who met each little nudge I tried to do past him.  I have no idea if I won or he won!<\/p>\n<p>I did something not so great last night and it could have spelled disaster today but fortunately didn&#8217;t.  I had a senna tea last night to help me this morning and it just didn&#8217;t work before I set out.  During the race I felt a little instability there but it held back.  Phew!  I shouldn&#8217;t try that in the future.  I did that because of all the junk I&#8217;d eaten in the last few days that I was still carrying.  In fact, my weight pre-race ballooned to 180 lbs.!  I was 177 after the race and bike home (though some of that weight might have been from treating myself to a Slurpee on the way back) but my eating has been ravenous and reckless of late and my weight is not where I want it to be right now.<\/p>\n<p>6:38s weren&#8217;t all that thrilling to have done, but in writing this I realized that&#8217;s actually pretty cool.   Not counting the 5th Avenue Miles, I&#8217;ve only done 3 previous races under 6:40s.  My AG percentage was at 65.32% which is pretty good for me at this time of year considering my training.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but think that also a drain on today&#8217;s speed was that I ran not one but TWO marathons last week!  I never have done that before!  Granted, they weren&#8217;t races but marathon-distance training runs, and I did them in 3:30ish, shaving off only 7 seconds in the second run.  Those 26.2-mile runs with less than a week of rest between them probably did a number on my body in ways I don&#8217;t know (a small but significant number, I should think&#8230;), and they probably were a factor in my running 6:38s and not something faster.  At least that&#8217;s what I was thinking when I couldn&#8217;t muster speed in the 3rd mile.<\/p>\n<p>So, woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I ran the men&#8217;s version of the Fitness Mind, Body, Spirit Games 4-Miler in Central Park. I ran it in 26:31 (6:38s). Below are my unoffficial Garmin stats. I forgot to turn off my watch right after the race so the end time and true distance is compromised a little bit: The weather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2012\/09\/15\/a-little-heavy-not-quite-a-pr-but-alright\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Little Heavy, Not Quite a PR, But Alright &#8230;<\/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":[6,3],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4milers","category-races","tag-fitness-mind-body-spirit-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}