Did my first parkrun today. Wanted to race/time trial a 5k to see where I was. Debated the Donut Dash 5k race on Sunday or a parkrun on Saturday. Race would have given me a lot of people around 25-minute 5k, but the course had at least one 60-foot hill on the loop and very slightly worse weather (I thought). Issue with the parkrun would be having to run by myself for much it.
So, I did the parkrun and that was the case. Really nice atmosphere - and yes, it's a 'run' not a 'race.' Place was basically to try and go out at 25-minute pace (8:03/mi, 5:00/km) and see what happened. Yo-yo'd a bit in the opening with the traffic and trying to guess my pace. Watch was up and down (7:30 to 8:30) despite wearing a foot pod and having a straight out and back with a pretty unobstructed sky. Overall distance was dead on -- 3.11 miles.
My pace sense must still be decent. Splits (km) were 4:59, 5:01, 5:05, 5:10, 5:16. Dead on 12:30 at the turnaround. I think my watch auto-paused for ~5 seconds at the beginning though.
I was totally by myself after a mile. Abs were screaming at some point. Kind of surprising. Not really lung searing, just harder and harder to generate power. HRs 162, 177, 179, 180, 180. Max 184. This was most depressing. I used to average around 186 for a 10 miler and was ~174 for my PR marathon. ~193 was typical for a 5k. I'm hoping I'll be able to use more beats at some point. Basically convince my brain, I'm not going to kill myself.
Anyway, I'm on the board.
5k@8:13/176 bpm. 25:36
weight: 186.2
Just a curiosity, but I find it funny that my 5k with wup (0.86) and cooldown (1.22), put me right on the 3:45 line with my other "best" training runs.
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