had a large frozen coffee w/ whipped cream at dunkin donuts… i ordered a small like usual, but the lady likes me & gave me a large, need to tell her not to do that if she does it again, was way too much, felt like it gave me diabeetus.
tmw morning, i’m traveling up an hour or so to do a prize money 5k.
$300/200/100 for top 3. should be able to top 3 it, could be my first prize money earnings
we’ll see.
going to try and snap out of it tomorrow and get back to battling. November/December are important so, need to get back to being ready for war. Big races coming up.
good luck tomorrow.
Remember race day is race day. Stay focused and mental strong.
Race day is NOT a training day. You WANT to WIN.
I think you did a bit to your mental readiness of the race when you did the all out start and then started to ease up afterwards.
It’s okay to plan to go hard the first mile, but then the rest of the race should be hell.
Anyways go blast them competitors away.
long story short: i forgot to pay my phone bill… so when i went to turn on the map before I got on the highway, i had no phone service… and I had to find the race the old fashion way… LMFAO. I knew generally where it was, so stopped at some gas stations and got it done. that was nutty tho.
probably ~5 hours sleep. going to try very hard to get up earlier, this week.
also, this race was at 7:45 AM … given the time change, it’s basically 8:45 AM weather. it was scorching hot.
Thanks alot @MarkKO! It felt incredible opening that envelope & seeing the check. Seriously, it was a weird moment. I mean, I just had a huge smile on my face. And I felt like, even feeling like crap in this weather, running one mile and coasting the next two, still getting a $200 check … just felt interesting.
If I can figure out how to jog 4:5X miles, i’d be happy… I guarantee it.
Yeah, i’m kind of in the area of grabbing prize money when it’s locals involved. If the fastest ones show up though, i’m not. The guy who won this today is one of those “fastest ones”. He’s on another level. He probably jogged this race. I mean he looked like he was jogging that first mile, I stayed on his shoulder. He’s a low 15’s 5k guy, but he ran 17:35 today. I bet it was so hot that he just said F it i’m just going to jog it out. If it was great weather he’d of probably pushed it alone. But it was brutal.
There’s a huge 10k next sunday. I’m doing it but, just going to run with some elites for a while hopefully. I have no desire to run a 10k right now, that’s for sure. lol.
It’s big prize money, $2k for the top male/female. Tons of big names come down.
Last year, 3 people went under 30 minutes in this 10k… that’s incredible for a South Florida race. One guy also set a masters (world?) record for a road 10k in that race.
Last year the weather was great though. This year, it’s most likely going to be awful, which really sucks because the faster this race is, the more elites it brings down. Last year it was like 70F - which the elites still complained about because most of them don’t race down here. But they were lucky. The locals loved it.
ah damn that’s awesome. not many prize money races around here. wish more races had prize money.
I think this is the 2nd prize money race i’ve done. The first one I did, was this December mile race (which is coming up soon again).
Definitely to the turnaround which was ~1.5 (I could see it in the distance). It was easy but my heart rate was high, which is what I started worrying about. We were at 5:2X pace. I just didn’t want to keep holding it and then somehow really gas where I couldn’t hold off someone who potentially was coming in with some bigger negative splits.
Talked to the 3rd place guy afterwards. He was trying to catch me up until about 2 miles, then he was just trying to hold onto 3rd (or not collapse from the heat heh). So he didn’t keep pushing hard for the same reason basically… lmao. Strategic when $$ involved.
First place guy must have also slowed up once I backed off. We were ~5:2X, but he finished at ~5:39 pace etc, so he probably went into 5:45 miles or whatever.
Don’t worry, if you’re going easy, the higher heart rate shouldn’t worry you.
It was hot, that put’s an extra heartbeat or 5 on top of it.
You are running shorter distances you Vo2 max (max oxygen consumption) is getting higher, meaning you can operate at a higher heart rate without building lactic acid.
Next time you run a short distance like 5K go by feel not heart rate. Follow the race leader and when/if you start to drop back you can adjust the pace accordingly.
It’s a race, a competition, you’re supposed to go just that bit harder than you do in training.
That’s why I like your goal of the sub 5 and 3’s, as long as you’re under that in training that’s good, you don’t need to push it there your pace is good and you can bring that speed to your races.
I know you’re aware of what you’re doing, and running is probably a bit different to cycling, but I can’t count the times I had to shut everything out and just push far far into red territory just to follow some of the big boys i the peloton. Sometimes I got to the finish line with nothing left other or most when that line came up I somehow found energy to sprint. Not saying I won though
Well that turned into a long rant.
It’s fun to read about a runner on these forums. Thanks for that.
I didn’t look at my watch at all when I was sticking with the leader, not even for the pace. I knew he was going to go fast so, put my watch on the “clock face” so that I wouldn’t look at it. Once I dropped off, I started looking at my watch because I wanted to maintain it around ~6 min/mi.
As for the HR, I was referring to “feel”. I could feel it was really beating fast, even during the warmups. It was probably like 95F heat index. I just got done with a run right now, was 92F heat index, similar (probably not as hot) conditions as yesterday.
damn. ya, redlining is rough. sometimes it turns out well (end result is positive), sometimes it’s a train wreck.
hah np. wonder if your rant changes tho now with my clarifications
regardless, thanks for the feedback/advice as always.
It’s huge man. I had no idea either until a few years ago. Pretty much all throughout the US, there’s big races every weekend.
There were a few other “big” prize money races in FL this weekend too (far from me). Then there’s this huge one next weekend, very close by, which i’m going to go have fun at (hopefully).
hahaha!! Thanks man.
nah I think i’m still an amateur
would love to get rid of that amateur title eventually tho…
. Does that take away your amateur status 
