Re-Fridgee Eighter 8 Mile is in the books way faster then planned. Grant came down with me and as Grant usually does he gets a wee bit faster every K until he finishes the guy is a machine!
Garmin splits tell the story ...
Fitbit HR was pretty accurate. At around the 10K mark, 56 min I felt pretty taxed look at the watch and I was doing around 158 bpm...pushing it! I told Grant to push ahead and I backed off for a bit recovering the HR to mid 140s before gradually picking it up again in the last 2.5 km.
The last K was a 5:18 pace , no doubt a negative split today!
I was only a few Ks in when I took my shell off. I was running in a Underarmour Base , tight and light and an old ATB long Sleeve T plus tights...still too warm for the pace. There was a breeze and the temps were hovering around the freezing mark.
So it was quite a surprise to run a 5:43 pace when the my goal was somewhere around a 7:00 to 7:30 pace. I just ran at Grants pace , or at least I tried...came close.
I finished in 1:13:33, 139 out of 217 participants , 95th out of 131 men and 7th out of 9 men in the 60-69 AG. Grant logged 1:12:04 129th overall and 5th in the same AG as me.
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