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Gasparilla 15k

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Location:

FL,United States

Member Since:

Feb 08, 2015

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Certified course PR's:

Mile: 4:28.0 (Florida, Jan 2020)

5K: 15:12 (FL, Jan. 2020)

10K: 31:44 (FL, Feb. 2020)

15K: 49:03 (FL, Feb. 2020)

1/2 Marathon: 1:10:34 (FL, Feb. 2020)

Marathon: 2:26:57 (WA, July 2019)

100k (63.7 miles, trail): 9:11:00 (FL, Jan. 2019)

Personal:

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Race: Gasparilla 15k (9.321 Miles) 00:50:07, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 3
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Gasparilla 15k Race Report

Final time: 50:07         "A" Goal time: sub 50, "B" Goal time: PR- sub 50:44

Weather/course: 70s, high dew point, humid, cloudy, breezy... Florida.  The course was a flat out and back with 1 little bridge.  

The Race: Interesting start.  I was in about 12th at the first mile marker.  Then, without even increasing the pace at all, the runners in front of me just kept falling off.  By the beginning of mile 4, I was handily into 3rd place-  1st and 2nd were long gone by that point.  Anthony was the only one really hanging (as he should be) around.  He was about 3-6 seconds behind me all the way until about mile 7.  I suppose that's the interesting thing about Gasparilla- everyone starts off super fast for really no reason at all.  I guess there is a reason- there was $5,000 in prize money split amongst the top 5 finishers being awarded, so maybe that's it.

The race was pretty lonely from mile 4 onward- just me and a beautiful vista of Tampa Bay.  Going solo made it difficult to pace and push myself.  It also didn't help that the mile markers were not even close to correctly placed, so my splits below are taken from the timing mats.  I was, fortunately, able to check myself correctly on the last mile, which I was happy came in at 5:18.

Results: 1st- 47:27,   2nd- 48:21,    Me- 50:07,  4th (Anthony)- 50:44,   5th- 51:17,    6th- 51:36

Splits: 1st half 25:11 (5:24 pace),  2nd half- 24:56 (5:21 pace).  Totals- 5:22.5 pace, ~16:42 average 5k pace.

Takeaways: I probably should have gone a little faster in the first half.  A negative split of 15 seconds and the decent final mile suggests I had more in me.  I'm still happy with the PR although, and it just means that there's room for improvement.

Comments
From Tom K on Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 14:17:19 from 66.87.122.71

3rd overall is incredible! Great job! Amazing work!

From Rob Murphy on Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 14:41:46 from 24.10.247.181

Excellent race and time. Congratulations.

From jtshad on Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 15:43:39 from 173.198.176.201

Great race and congrats on the PR.

From Jason D on Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 18:33:58 from 24.127.111.174

Well done, Mike.

From Mike M on Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 07:58:01 from 168.213.5.107

Thanks for reading, I appreciate the comments.

Were you there, Tom?

From Tom K on Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:52:27 from 66.87.148.240

No. Last year was too much of a drive, I thought. It's a great race, but i just live too far away. Congratulations again. You were really flying!

From butlerbrunning on Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:50:34 from 104.52.197.67

Great Race

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