mothers day 5k

Today is mothers day. happy mothers day to all those mothers everywhere.

So for today it was a nice small 5k and my "home" track. A lake near by were almost everyone of my 5k races has been. Como lake is a nice little lake in St. Paul. Its a nice small lake about 1.5 miles around so 2 laps for a 5k. Didn't look like too many racers were really going to push it today. That was my plan till i got there and saw very few people. The RD says " all runners going for under 23:00 please come to the front" well no one did. So i figured what the heck i got in the front. i was just going to do a nice and easy 9:30 pace and at mile marker 1 watch said 6:49. oops. the next couple miles were a lot slower. but still finished in 22:43. that is only 1:30 short of my PR time. :D so from the looks of things i should be getting 3 PRs in June. 5k 8k and 10K. 8k and 10K will be PRs for sure because i haven't ran those distances before. oh yeah and i did the race with no GPS no HR monitor just my watch. i am sure my pace would have been more steady with it but i just thought i would give it a try