A familiar course, where I ran the half-marathon in July.
I signed up for the 10K as I didn't want to be down in the dumps for another week or so after not hitting my race goal, like I was after Melissa's.
I went into this race, wanting to beat my 10K time of 1:08 from MEC Race #2. But it would be nice to beat my PR time of 1:03 set at the Rock the House Marathon in Sept '12. Even better would be to break the 1 hour barrier.
I was conscious of not going out too fast, but keeping a good pace because obviously you have to be running at a 6 min/km pace (9.65 minutes per mile). Thankful to have latched onto 2 runners who were going at a good clip and just let them pull me along. Thanked them at the end of the race too.
Caution- serious runner ahead-that's me in the red shirt on the right (photo credit- MEC-flickr site):
121 1:01:08.66 1047 Melanie PAULSON 59/132 F 1:00:51.89 6:06
PR- oh yeah:
Now to figure out what's next. Winter is fast approaching. My running has dropped way off- I ran 2 weeks ago and then this race. I imagine I would I blasted the 1h time, if I had trained a bit more. Hmph.
There is another MEC run in November , so maybe that's next? We'll see what the weather brings.
Thanks MEC for making racing fun & affordable!
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