Today I ran the Park to Park 10 Mile Race.
This is the first year of the race, so you are never quite sure of what you are going to get. I made sure I had my own drink (and enough of it so that I wouldn't need anything else) and a post race snack.
This race was unusual for me. Usually I go into a race after a taper and looking for a new PR. This time it was different. I had no taper other than skipping Sunday's 30 minutes of easy cross training. I actually ran 13 miles on Saturday for my long run. I had a non-official time PR time of 1:31 that I was NOT going to try to beat.
My goal was to run this race as a training run and to see how my planned marathon pace felt.
All in all, a lot of credit goes to the people who planned this race. It started on time, the course was handled well, markers were in place, and aid stations were where they were promised. The food afterward was excellent!
All in all, I am looking forward to running this race again.
My official time was 1:37:00, BTW. That reflected a perfect 9:31 average pace--my target marathon pace.
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Congratulations on a perfect pace and even more congrats for the wisdom not to try to PR after Saturday's long run.
Starting a new race is tough, especially in your area where there are so many established races. Glad the organizers pulled it off so well.
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