Saturday, June 1, 2013

I beat Lydia Olivere! Penn Distance Classic Mile 5:18.35

She is a stud in Delaware running circles. These would be middle school circles. I googled her obv and Im fairly sure she is 13- she was right behind me in the heat 519.7 lol. So I achieved my goal of not losing to a middle school girl haha- I dont know about middle school boys though some of them might have taken me out. Also to be fair to me I believe Lydia is an incoming 9th grader so maybe so doesnt count as an 8th grader anymore.

To go back to the beginning obviously we were going up for Darin and Nandu to run the 800. ALso Mikey and Andrew were running the mile and since I was going I figured to sign up to run obviously. Originally entered the 3000, then saw the performance list where my 1030 had me last out of the men and 18th of 20 overall ahead of probably 2 high school girls and decided that discretion was the better part of valor etc etc and switched to the mile where there were lots of other slow people. Wise.

So I was in the second heat of 6(fast last obv) and wanted to do 77s hopefully. Surprisingly! the first lap was 72 lol and then 78 for 230. I was feeling tired at about 600 but was trying to keep it steady- some kid passed me at about 900(dropping from second to third) and then one the older guys passed me at 1100. I dont remember the 1200. I tried(slightly successfully) to pick it up w 200 to go which enabled me to hold of Lydia and others. I didnt know who was there- although it would have been funny to have her beat me actually haha.

So I think that is my slowest ever mile in competition possibly. But it was better than last week- I also havent run a mile in either 15 or 27 months im not quite sure. Plus I havent run a 400 in 72 in ?? and I had 3 laps to go haha. So not terrible I suppose- just try to keep getting better. Its hard to race a mile when you do nothing but tempo runs etc. It would be nice to run faster than slug pace though.

Goals which I dont know if I can do- but thats what the whole point is- are to hit close to this pace for 2 miles in about 2 months. First we have the Hashawha 3 mile which is a nice hilly 3 mile try for 6 min pace.


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