I don’t know who this Joe Kleinerman is, but I really like him. And I’ve got his t-shirt.
MASSIVE PR – (for me) – 10K – 49:09 – 7:55/mile pace…oh yeah
That’s right-sub 8 minutes-my first ever.
Better than any training run to date on that distance, blew the previous Nike 10K way outta da water, but that was a terrible course (53:26, august 31) and three months ago.
Not sure what I did right here except go out fast and hold the line. Weather was a blessing, little wind, cool but not cold yet, no sun. Roadrunners president Mary Wittenberg introduced some guy from ‘Da Bronx-that’s how he was introduced, and I could swear after ever sentence I heard the Law and Order “doink-doink.” “I’m a man of few woyds…on ya mahwks…!” Race started at 103rd Street and went anti-clockwise around the park, beginning in the Harlem Hills. (“ya, youse godda run ‘dem Hawlem Hills…”) I was actually looking forward to this since my own runs always begin with the hill up to Park Slope, so this was similar. There were only a few moderate climbs for the rest of the course and it seemed like lots of downhills. I think that is where I picked up a lot of time.
I don’t have splits that are accurate because I was running on a new nike ipod and it was not calibrated. Christmas is coming and if the Garmin-Gods can get their Mac update out I will be changing over in the new year.
Can’t report anything interesting during the race-not a lot of time to look around! The first two miles was spent trying to find space and pass a lot of people. You can see that in the graph. It is really great when you pass people who are clearly aiming for comfortable 9-10-minute mile who lined up in the corral in front of you and are going out in happy-chatty groups-yeah maybe you can run 7:00′s all day long but the 9:00′s are behind me in the next corral…
Didn’t get hit by any snot-rockets or lougies. Which is saying something in this cold. Sounded like a Seniors Residence cafeteria during breakfast! Oy! Around mile four I had to drop a foot-flopper (plop plop plop plop) with some heavy asthmatic breathing and grunting going on next to me-turned up the ipod and tried not to listen while running faster. Guess I can thank him for my PR? Around mile five there was an lady who like to split runners with an open-sesame-arm move. Coming Through! Yeah right. We are all here for ya lady!
Time for a nap. It was fun while it lasted…
Edit: I figured out the splits I think. Based on total time and time between ipod markers and using the differential of avg miles per hour (7.10mph vs 7.47mph–.95%)
mile 1 8:11 8:11/pace
mile 2 15:58 7:47/pace
mile 3 23:50 7:52/pace
mile 4 31:47 7:57/pace
mile 5 39:58 8:11/pace
mile 6 47.33 7:35/pace
mile .21 49:09 7:37/pace
A little bump in the middle, I remember thinking at mile 5, save something for the last little bit. Probably shouldn’t have thought that.
This is HYSTERICAL! I knew Joe K very well. He would surely get a kick out of this piece.