Another Monday, another race...this was the third race in the Long Island Summer Park Race Series. Caumsett is nestled out on Lloyd's Neck. It is a serene park with a walled garden and nice, wide, paved paths. Unfortunately, its isolation means that getting a large number of racers in there takes a lot of time and even though we budgeted an extra hour for the trip, we barely made the starting line in time! Luckily, we got there and this was a chip race, so I got an accurate time even though I started 2 minutes after the gun.
It turns out that those extra long first two runs were exactly what I needed. This time I had no doubt that I could run a 5k, so I was able to keep up the pace and really challenge myself. The past few weeks of work paid off when I beat my goal of a 10 minute mile! The top female ran a 5:50 mile, which now seems more insane than ever. I mean, a 9:50 mile was tough for me, I can't even imagine how fast my legs would be moving as a 5:50 pace!
There is no race next week, so I now have an extra week to train for the 4K at Hempstead Lake. I think I will need a few more rules to prepare for that one.
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