2013.05.04 Flying Pig 5K

After finishing the 10K, I had roughly an hour before the 5K was going to start.  I grabbed one of those foil blankets, and wrapped it around my legs, and went back up and sat on one of the benches outside the Great American Ballpark.

It was great people watching, i actually struck up a conversation with the gentleman facing me - he was wearing a Garmin Forerunner 110 - I had never seen the watch before and i asked him about it.  He was running the 4-way as well - and he said he liked it a lot. One thing he did say got me thinking though - he mentioned that he had run a 5 and some change marathon and he didn't have any battery issues - I had never even thought of the possibility of the battery in my forerunner dying - I hadn't brought my charger with me....Knowing it was too late now i figured i'd just roll with it and see what happens.

I also noticed one other woman wearing the same Pig Hat i was wearing, she had run the 10K as well, so I assumed that she was running the 4-way.

I noticed that while i felt good when i was moving, stopping brought back the sciatica and pain in my left "cheek".  The 45 minutes or so sitting on the bench hadn't helped - and when i stood up, i had to stretch out again.

Eventually 10am came and the race went off.  I had never run this 5K course, but i did know that the back half of it mirrored the 10K course, because I had seen the 2 mile marker on my earlier run.

Mile 1 - 9:59
Mile 2 - 9:33

I actually started feeling really good after the second mile.  I never really ever reached a feeling of being "tired" during this race - I just felt as though i was plugging along, on a LSD (Long Slow Distance) run of sorts.

Mile 3 - 9:14
Chute - 1:00

Final - 29:47

Again, not the fastest 5K I've ever run, but I kept it respectable and survived.  I headed back to my parents house on the Northeast side of Cincy, and grabbed 44 pounds of ice for my ice bath.  I figured it couldn't hurt to flush my legs, I was going to need every bit of luck i could get for tomorrow.