Firecracker 5K Recap - One week later!
The last race I did was a half marathon at the end of March and for my speed it was more of a shuffle than anything. This was my first race since then and with my coach. The couple of weeks prior to this race we had backed off of the long runs and did some specific running focused on the 5K speed. I had dreams of setting a new 5K PR at this elevation (I set a 5K PR at a much lower elevation that I hope to break some day!). In order to set a 5K PR I needed to average a mile pace of something like 8:15 or less. I was optimistic to start with but after a workout or two of trying to hold that pace I knew it wasn't in the books. So I re-adjusted and just wanted to beat my time from the previous year (27:10). It was kind of odd because the race was on Thursday rather than a Saturday when most races are held. But it is what it is. The weather turned out to be pretty good because we had been having some high temperature's leading into it. It ended up being in the high 50'