I ran the Annual Chuy's 5K this morning. It is my first time to run this race and I really liked it. Usually I do the Austin Cycling Association's Armadillo Hill Country Classic, which is a pretty ride, but this year I am concentrating on running and hopefully getting my speed up.
The race course was perfect; it started off with a slight downhill run, then it went slowly uphill for about a mile, followed by a long and gradual descent downhill to the finish. The elevation gain was only about eighty feet in one mile, so it was not something you really noticed, and the elevation change was only ninety feet over several miles.
The weather was almost perfect. The temperature was in the mid seventies, but the humidity at about eighty percent. I was drenched by the time I finished. Here is my chip time.
I finished right at thirty one minutes with a ten minute pace.
This put me at an eighth in my age group out of twelve runners. If I could take off one minute, and get my time below thirty minutes, I could have moved up three places. I was in four hundredth place overall out of three thousand runners and walkers, and eighth in my age group.
I will have to do this race again in coming years, because I really enjoyed it. It was very well-organized by the Special Olympics backers and the course was good.
Next week is the 2008 Puma Congress Avenue Mile, I would like to do it but I will be giving blood on Tuesday and looking at my times from recent events, I think I will be one of the last finishers in my age group.
I've not run a mile since high school, but it would be fun to see what I could do. Nine minutes? No matter what time I do it in, it will be a PR, since high school does not count, that was too long ago. It would be running downhill from the Capitol. I'll see how I'm doing Wednesday on my training run before signing up.
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