So...Monday morning was the Alaina Dixon 5 Miler. And of course it was on the side of town I had just moved away from. We were volunteering first, so we had to be there at 5:30am to help with packet pick-up and then the race started at 7:15am.
It was me, E, her bestie K who just moved back to town and A. And the goal was to go out slow and then negative split every mile.I haven't plugged in my watch yet to get all the splits, but I'm fairly certain that I did it.
The first mile was really slow, around 11:45. Personally, I think it's hard to start out slow and then get faster. You get into that rhythm and its to speed up. Have I mentioned yet how hot it was? Oof. It was a typical Texas morning - hot and humid.
I really should have looked up my splits for this post, but I didn't. So let's keep going.
By the halfway mark, we had averaged prob an 11 minute mile. I think my final mile was somewhere around 9:20. I ended up with an average pace of 10:20 over 5 miles which, after that first mile, I think is pretty impressive.
After the race I was pretty much useless. I just wanted to cool off. But I couldn't. It took me hours to finally cool all the way down. I guess that's what happens when you run in Texas.
Sidenote - If you're wondering who Alaina Dixon is, she is a local Houston runner who collapsed just shy of the finish line at the 2011 Chevron Houston Marathon, going into cardiac arrest. Thanks to the life-saving efforts of medical personnel on the finish line, Dixon was revived and her life was saved. All proceeds from the race will benefit the Houston Marathon Committee's race day medics and the Houston Marathon Foundation.
It was me, E, her bestie K who just moved back to town and A. And the goal was to go out slow and then negative split every mile.I haven't plugged in my watch yet to get all the splits, but I'm fairly certain that I did it.
The first mile was really slow, around 11:45. Personally, I think it's hard to start out slow and then get faster. You get into that rhythm and its to speed up. Have I mentioned yet how hot it was? Oof. It was a typical Texas morning - hot and humid.
I really should have looked up my splits for this post, but I didn't. So let's keep going.
By the halfway mark, we had averaged prob an 11 minute mile. I think my final mile was somewhere around 9:20. I ended up with an average pace of 10:20 over 5 miles which, after that first mile, I think is pretty impressive.
After the race I was pretty much useless. I just wanted to cool off. But I couldn't. It took me hours to finally cool all the way down. I guess that's what happens when you run in Texas.
Sidenote - If you're wondering who Alaina Dixon is, she is a local Houston runner who collapsed just shy of the finish line at the 2011 Chevron Houston Marathon, going into cardiac arrest. Thanks to the life-saving efforts of medical personnel on the finish line, Dixon was revived and her life was saved. All proceeds from the race will benefit the Houston Marathon Committee's race day medics and the Houston Marathon Foundation.
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