Portugal Day 5K. As I expected, it wasn't a good race for me. 22:20, no splits since there were no mile markers. The time doesn't surprise me given lack of training this week, but I feel like I wasted a great chance to run a fast time - the course is flat and fast and the weather was almost perfect, upper 50s and sunny, only a bit too windy. I was okay for 2 miles (I think they were around 7:05), and then died on the third mile into the headwind. I had no one to run with in the end, everyone I targeted ahead I eventually passed, and then there was only a group of runners more than a hundred yards away, couldn't catch them. It seems like I can only keep it together for 2 miles, either 1 and 3, or 1 and 2. |