5k of Grass and pain.

Michigan Challenge 5k Chase:
22:00 - 5k @ 7:05
Planned: 21:46 - 5k @ 7:00
Place: 43rd, 2nd in Age group.

I Have to admit that this was my fastest official 5k to date. So I should be quite happy. Over all I am, but I am a bit annoyed by the fact that I did not hit my goal time. I kept telling myself that I would be happy with 21:59, and since I missed that by 1 second I am allowed to be put out.

The Crazy thing about this race, for me at least was that the bulk of it was on Grass. I have never run more then a 100m on grass before. It was kind of nice as far as saving my legs some pain. But I cant help but feel it slowed me down a bit. I will probably never know. At least I did not feel the pounding I did last week on my Intervals.

This was the first time I have ever placed in my age group. 2nd place 1.15 behind the guy ahead of me. Of course the winner of the next age group up did it in 16:40. I even got a nifty stone coaster for a award. Its kind of cheesy but Its a first so I am kind of proud of it.

The only other thing of note is that my Garmin was off by .02 miles, and my Nike + was off by .7 k It reported my at 4.93. This is not bad except that I am in a 5k Nike Challenge and my 22 minute run was not recorded. Which would have brought me for the bottom of the rankings to some ware in the top 20. Oh well. I guess Ill just have to do another race before august.