I have set a goal for myself to race a 5K under 19:00 minutes by the end of the year. It could be 18:59 and I would be happy with that. I did a 5K a couple weeks ago, the first since last October I believe, and my first race of this year. Think of this as a practice run to see where my fitness is at this point and to check out this course. I plan to run another race that will follow the same route on March 12 so now I am familiar with it. During the race two weeks ago I got off course at the half way turn around. I should have made a sharp U-turn from the road onto a bike path but I swung too far out and into a parking lot losing me a few seconds to get back on the path. I finished with a time of 20:34 which is better than anticipated at this point giving me 1st in age group and 5th overall. This was a popular but low key race; the faster runners in the area did not show up. The temperature at the start was 52 degrees, which for me was cold. Even after a warm-up I still felt like I could not relax over the first mile. I just felt stiff and could not get up to speed. So my goal for the next race is to work on speed endurance. I will do this with a couple 20 minute tempo runs, some one mile repeats and half mile repeats. I keep the recovery time between repeats short to avoid recovering too much. I only do work-outs two days a week; the other days are variations of slower runs, only running 5 days a week.
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