With limited speed training and a decent amount of marathon training from December through February, I finished in 1:28:22!! Only 12 seconds off my goal PR!! Took almost 3 minutes off my old best time!!
Conditions were perfect. Tailwind on the way out. Light head and crosswinds for the way back. Rolling sand dune-style road. Low to mid 50s and overcast.
I had no idea what to pace at without any race-pace tempo runs. So I tracked my heartrate and pacing for the first two miles to see how I felt---if I needed to slow down. But I didn't. Felt great at two miles. Comfortable. So I quit looking at my heart rate and resisted (as much as possible) checking my half mile splits.
By starting slower, I picked off runners one by one. At 5k I was at 32nd place, at halfway 25th, at mile 10 19th, and finished at 16th overall. The second half was almost a minute faster than the first. And I kicked the last mile in 6:10.
What happened??? I still can't figure it out. Seaside was March 1st. Looking at my workouts since Denember, I only did 5 runs that had a sub-7:10 mile split: 12/23, 1/19, 1/23, 2/10, and 2/15. But those were nowhere close to a 6:44 pace for a considerable distance. However it happened, I had the mileage base from training for the 5points marathon a couple weeks before (2/15---where I'd accidentally ran a 6:57 split for mile 12...).
Next year will be one second per mile faster!!!
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