Bret

Kiwanis Midnight Run

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Location:

Milton,GA,USA

Member Since:

Jul 27, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PR's -

Mile - 4:38    (High School)

2 Mile - 10:12 (High School) 

3 mile - 15:51 (High School)

10k - 35:19 (High School)

Marathon - 2:59 marathon (London -2013)

Half marathon - 1:25:18 (Deseret News 2013)

Completed all 6 of the World Marathon Majors 2024

Completed each of the 5 majors (NY, Chicago, Boston, London & Berlin) at least twice.

8 x Boston Marathon (1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2020 (virtual due to covid) 2021, 2022)

13 x NYC Marathon (1997, 1998, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3 hour marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Continue to enjoy running and racing as long as my body permits me.  

Personal:

Old guy - (grandfather even) been running for 40+ years.  

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Miles:This week: 17.75 Month: 107.20 Year: 376.05
Race: Kiwanis Midnight Run (3.106 Miles) 00:19:43, Place overall: 27, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.003.200.0012.20

PM - easy 5 miles around the office park at lunch.  Race this evening - Midnight Run.

 

PM - late.   So this year's Midnight Run 5k was actually a reasonably good effort for me despite the seemingly ponderously slow time.   That part was a bit perplexing.   I honestly felt really pretty solid most of the race.  First mile was consciously conservative but I was not holding back much.  That mile was 6:03.  I felt like I held the same pace in the second mile, but probably lost a few seconds on the 180 degree turn-around.  That turned out to be 6:13.  

I raced well actually - moving up and passing runners throughout the race.  Somehow I lost time over the drawbridge despite feeling like the effort was at least the same or a little stronger than the first 2 miles.  Passed several runners in the last mile and except for one who got me back in the final stretch, I had no one pass me.  I really expected to see mid 18's on the clock when I headed to the finish.  

So - not a great time but finished 1st in my age group.  Connected with Doug at the start and chatted with him after the race as he walked to his car to change shirts - he was doing the 10k as well.  Very humid night by the way 91%.  Shirts were literally drenched as if we had been swimming.  Turns out Doug finished 2nd in our age group on a very conservative effort by him - knowing he was going to be doing the 10k afterwards as a progression workout- which I see from the race results showed that he finished in 47 mins - Nicely done. 

Good crowd for the event again - somewhere in the range of 1200 runners in the 5k and 500 or so in the 10.  

Did  a short cool down - thought about running with Doug in the 10 for a brief moment, and then thought better of it.   

Comments
From Rob Murphy on Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 13:21:09 from 24.10.249.165

I will lok forward to reading your race report with my pre-race coffee tomorrow morning.

Good luck and let it rip!

From Rob Murphy on Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 13:23:57 from 24.10.249.165

I'm seeing 76 degrees at race time with a 9 mph tailwind going out. That's not too bad for a 5k.

From Bret on Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 14:10:59 from 166.147.123.32

Nice to know. Presently we are getting hammered by a thunderstorm - too bad you cannot join us tonight. Put it in your plans for next year.

From Rob Murphy on Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 09:17:15 from 24.10.249.165

Nice race Bret. It's nice to see the Midnight Run thriving.

From dugco on Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:10:59 from 68.207.225.215

Great seeing you Bret - will do my race report when I get in front of a real computer.

From Jake K on Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 12:26:04 from 174.251.19.211

Way to go Bret. Happy 4th.

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