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Originally Posted by Empire Man
How was it recovering from the half? No big thing? Lingering soreness?
Yeah, it was no problem. I drank about 32 oz of gatorade and ate 3 scrambled eggs and a banana within 20 minutes of returning. Did my usual stretching and foam roller routine. No lingering soreness and my hips and feet didn't ache at all.
Then I spent the whole day following my son around at an outdoor party and slept in a tent. I woke up a few times with weirdly intense pain on the outside of my left knee that would mysteriously go away when I switched positions. But the next day I was fine and I haven't felt anything similar since.
I took Sunday off and then did 5 miles @ 9:08 pace on Monday, and 7 miles at 8:57 pace yesterday. Gonna try to fit another 5 in today, then rest Thursday, do 5 on Friday, rest Saturday, 5k on Sunday.
Question about the upcoming 5k:
So none of my friends were able to register in time. But they will be there to cheer me on. Without having to worry about beating my friend, I'm considering the approach of going out with the leaders in the race and trying to stay within touch of third place (because it won't really matter if I blow up a little bit). The way it usually goes in these things is that there's like 1 fast guy who will run in the 16s or 17s, but 2nd will definitely be in the 18s and third could be mid 19s. I feel like I could potentially be in mid-19s shape, and I kinda really want to ship one of the medals they give to the top 3 finishers.
The other option (probably smarter) is to shoot for around 13:00 at 2 miles regardless of what the leaders are running, then try to crank the last 1.1 to get sub 20.
Thoughts?