{"id":127,"date":"2010-02-03T16:40:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-02-03T16:50:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:50:44","slug":"1834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/2010\/02\/1834\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Intensity – 18:34…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>5k of the Salt Lake Track Club<\/a> winter racing series is over. I want another go at it, and my legs did too on Monday. While I ran well and was right at my goal time I am certain that I can go faster. Just look at my face…that’s not the face of somebody who only has half a mile to go in a 5k.<\/p>\n

So yeah, am I a little disapointed? Yes. Was it a great learning experience for me after focusing on longer distance races? Yes.<\/p>\n

What I think I need to do now is get used to the efforts involved in shorter races, I think the 10k and 15k will be more inline with my strengths at the current time, more fast tempo work than a super-fast hard burn at sub 6 minute miles.<\/p>\n

It’s funny how frustrations manifest themselves. I had a lunch run record of 56:17 for 9 miles on the Monday after the race. Subconsciously I knew that I hadn’t run that hard, and needed something to push on. Seemed to work, I felt great after that run and have been pleased with training since.<\/p>\n

Two weeks till the 10k, well more like one and a half now. I’m thinking of modifying my goal to 38:30ish instead of 39 minutes. We’ll see how it goes and I’m gonna be sure to leave less in the tank at the end.<\/p>\n

Also as a side note, 28 degrees is too cold not to wear gloves, my hands were freakin’ freezing during the race, the rest was fine but boy howdy were they cold. I figured a short hard race would be fine but that was not the case. Maybe I can blame my lack of focus on my hands. Nah, that seems like an excuse…just gotta run harder next time. And wear gloves…<\/p>\n

Cheers to all the volunteers and the club for putting on the race and the series. It makes for a nice bit of winter running motivation to have something to train for on the horizon. Complacency is a horrible thing, or something to that extent…<\/p>\n

Oh, and thanks to Noble Sports<\/a> for the photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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5k of the Salt Lake Track Club’s Winter Racing Series is over. I want another go at it, and my legs did too on Monday. While I ran well and was right at my goal time I am certain that I can go faster. Just look at my face…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-races","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteresko.com\/30threehour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}