Well, my heal/arch was still a bit achey this morning but I wasn't going to miss a race short of being totally lame. Today was perfect running conditions, with absolutely no wind and perfect temps. I ran this race last year (same course) and ended up with a 23:10 so to come up with a 1:15 PR for the course today is something to cheer about. After crossing the finish line and looking at the distance on my Garmin I was not pleased to find that the course is 3.25 miles. I thought I was running faster than 7:05 miles and infact I was. Again, according to Garmin my average pace for the run was 6:44/mile. I knew I wasn't ready to run a sub 20 5k yet but I figured a sub 21 should be very possible even with my nagging foot. I spoke with several other runners with garmins and my response from everyone on the distance was 3.25 miles. I even went so far as to talk (very nicely) to the timing guy about the distance and he assured me that he certified the course distance himself and that the reading on my Garmin didn't really matter......ya right.
I was still very pleased with my overall run and time. It is a new PR even though it's still not the PR I know I am capable of. I will be running another 5K on this same course in 2 weeks, I wonder what Garmin will say then. | 