{"id":2061,"date":"2010-06-23T00:14:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T07:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2012-03-20T17:08:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:08:58","slug":"recap-run-for-the-trees-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/06\/23\/recap-run-for-the-trees-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Run for the Trees 5k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got my 5k PR! YESH. I was really so excited, I couldn&#8217;t believe I did it &#8212; my watch (which I forget to stop at the finish) said around 30 minutes. I knew I got in earlier but it didn&#8217;t matter: I got my 30-minute PR! Little did I know, I actually got a sub-30 time! wOOt. Official recorded time was: 29 mins 20 seconds. That&#8217;s about a 9:28 min\/mile pace. Compare that to my previous PR five years ago (32:44 @ 10:32 pace), I think I&#8217;ve shaved off some wee minutes there. ^_^<\/p>\n<p>This was also the first time I&#8217;d ever used my Vibram Five Fingers for an actual race! The verdict is: awesomesauce.<\/p>\n<p>Still, despite the positive race result, there were a couple of things I would&#8217;ve done differently and have to keep in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>I hit the 1st mile with a sub-9 pace.<\/em> ACK. I think the lady reading the watch at the 1st mile marker said something like 8:45! I definitely went too fast too early and kind of slowed down to an 10:45 min\/mile pace midway.<\/li>\n<li><em>I stood too close to the start line.<\/em> Not that close but close enough that the reason I went too fast in the beginning was I was attempting to run with the pack &#8212; who apparently were going too fast for their tastes either! LOL I was just concerned that it wasn&#8217;t chip timing so I didn&#8217;t want to lose that much time<\/li>\n<li><em>I forgot to wear my compression calf sleeves.<\/em> I make it a point that whenever I run in my Vibram Five Fingers shoes, I wear my compression sleeves as: 1) support; 2) speedier recovery for later. Both calves are still sore, btw. It also doesn&#8217;t help that I haven&#8217;t stretched or used the foam roller, at all.<\/li>\n<li><em>Need watch my breathing.<\/em> At one point, I was breathing rather shallow that I only realised it  when some random person running next to me was breathing just as fast. I  kept my speed and did some deep breathing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So just a few notes for me to keep in mind the next time I do a short race. At least I knew that I had to just give it everything I got.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, did I mention my heart rate was maxing out? Or close to maxing anyway! I was just thinking, please little heart, help me get to the finish line!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my next 5k is on July 4th. I&#8217;m doing all these short races as preparation for the sprint triathlon in October! And for fun, of course. I just need to take a short break from long distance running before I get back into training for the Marine Corps Marathon in October!<\/p>\n<p>p.s.,<br \/>\nI need to remind myself to wear my superman underpants again. I think those helped me zoom past the peeps \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>p.p.s.,<br \/>\nShout out to my little brother, Jean! It was his first 5k and he finished with a respectable 32 minutes! Though he wasn&#8217;t happy with his time, I told him that he&#8217;ll definitely do better if he trained for the next race! So, he&#8217;s doing the 4th of July 5k with me and sis! YAY another sibling bitten by the running bug! ^_^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got my 5k PR! YESH. I was really so excited, I couldn&#8217;t believe I did it &#8212; my watch (which I forget to stop at the finish) said around 30 minutes. I knew I got in earlier but it didn&#8217;t matter: I got my 30-minute PR! Little did I know, I actually got  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/06\/23\/recap-run-for-the-trees-5k\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[247,224],"tags":[535,246,248,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}