Completed:
3/17/07 – Sharin’ O’ the Green 5K
5/6/07 – Colorado Marathon
5/28/07 – 2007 Bolder Boulder 10K
Next:
7/28/07 – Human Race 5K?
5/28/2007 – 2007 Bolder Boulder
Boulder, CO 7:04 AM – 51:11 official
Bib #BB052
5/06/2007 – Colorado Marathon
Ft Collins, CO 6:15 AM – 4:50:25 official
Bib #148
Placed:
- 537/621 – Overall
- 333/364 – Mens Overall
- 43/45 – Mens 30-39 age group
Race Ratings on a 1-4 scale:
Bang for the Buck – 
- $80 early registration for race included tech shirt, medal, poster, start transportation and food and drink at the finish. Last year the early registration fee was $60, included a few goodies at sign up and also included a finishers glass, in addition to the tech shirt, medal, and poster.
Porta-Potties - 
- numerous at the start and finish, but very few throughout the course.
Course – 
- 1100′ drop on course, slight hill at mile 19. First 20 miles on asphault, with last 6 on cement bike trail.
Weather - 
- great weather, high 30’s at start, low 50’s at finish with a clear sunny sky. A nice break in the previous days stormy weather.
Course Aid -
- 11 aid stations during run, each aid station offered water and gatorade. The last few also offered Hammer gel, aid at mile 23 also had pretzels, gummy bears, & oranges. Bananas, oranges, cookies, water at finish, along with booths with a variety of food to purchase.
Pre-Race:
Race:
Post-Race:
Splits:
5K – 25:33
10K – 52:06
Half – 1:54:46
20 Miles – 3:14:42
Finish – 4:50:25
Nike+ Graph:
3/17/2007 – Sharin’ O’ The Green 5K
Ft Collins, CO 8:30 AM – 22:47 official – 22:33 garmin – 22:39 Nike+
Bib # 96
Placed:
- 72/501 – Overall
- 60/224 – Mens Overall
- 15/58 - Mens 30-39 age group
(Garmin showed my time as 22:33 which would beat my 22:38 PR)
Race Ratings on a 1-4 scale:
Bang for the Buck – - $20 for race included shirt, and a lot of food and drink at start and finish. Goodie bag with a few coupons for Dicks Sporting goods, Carls Jrs., & noodles.
Porta-Potties - - only 3 at the start, caused a delay for the start of the race
Course – - nice flat course
Weather - - great weather, 50 F with a clear sunny sky.
Course Aid -- 1 aid station during run and a lot of food and drink at start/finish.
Overall, I ran a good race, I was a little slower than I wanted to be. I was hoping to get around a 21:30 to have a better seed in the 2007 Bolder Boulder 10K. I ended up having an offical time of 22:47
My prerace meal included oatmeal and honey, and that gave me some energy. The race this year had over 500 participants, which was up from the 304 last year. This was my first year running the race, but I will look into it next year.
The race started at about 8:35, since there was still a line at the porta-potties at 8:30. 3 porta-potties for over 500 runners, is a little shy of the best amount.
The course was pretty flat, running down Peterson Avenue going around the block and coming back down Peterson for an I shape to the course.
I don’t think I could have improved my time too much more, I may have been able to shave about 30 seconds more, but I was pretty much at my highest speed. My heartrate topped out at 195 (97%) and averaged at 188 (94%), so I don’t think I could have pushed too much more. I was forced at 2.5 to walk for about 4 seconds, but the rest of the race was running.
At the end I hit the lap button instead of the stop button on my Garmin, so I added an additional 1.5 minutes to my time. Oh well,
Here were my splits
Mile 1 – 6:46 (new PR on the mile for me!)
Mile 2 – 7:19 (14:05)
Mile 3 – 7:45 (21:50)
Finish – 22:33 – (a new PR according to my Garmin) My previous PR was 22:38. My official race time was 22:47
Map:
I Placed 15/58 in the 30 -39 age group. The winner of the race was in my age group and averaged a 5:18 pace!
Nike+ graph
The race Bling:
Cotton T-shirt
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