Before I head to Las Vegas for the half marathon, I have one other little race to take care of. When we used to live close to family, I would cook Thanksgiving dinner on occasion. Although I am not much of a cook, I can actually put together a nice holiday meal by relying on favorite recipes. Now that we are always traveling for Thanksgiving, we are the lucky guests at another’s table. Since I don’t have the pressure of getting the turkey in the oven, a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving is a must.
I was just on Athlinks.com checking out my previous Turkey Trot 5K times. Have you been over to Athlinks? I love it because it keeps track of all of your races, times and paces. You can look up other runners, too, but of course I would never do that because we should all just be worried about ourselves and who cares about what anyone else is doing. Ya, right. Anyway, I was noticing that my PR pace for a 5K is 8:08 per mile from back in 2007. Last Thanksgiving my pace was 8:10, but when I ran a 5K this spring my pace was 9:16. It appears that I have slowed considerably.
While its too late to set a goal for the 5K that I could actually do any training towards, I think I will set a goal just for motivational purposes. More accurately, it would be a guess as to what my time is going to be. I’ve been feeling slow lately, so it’s hard for me to guess how fast I could actually go if I were willing to suffer for a whole 3.1 miles. Do I want to suffer? The half marathon is the next week, so maybe I shouldn’t suffer too much.
I don’t know what time to pick. Does anyone want to help? Maybe you should give me my goal pace for the 5K? Here are the facts: my pace at my last 5K in the spring was 9:16. I also ran an 8K in the spring and my pace was 8:52. The Thanksgiving race this year is held on a reasonably flat course. This is a charity race, so it’s questionable if the course will really be 3.1 miles. I’m going to go by the time and distance as recorded by my Garmin. Leave me a comment with your predicted pace. I wish I could give the winner a prize, but seeing as you all don’t live next door, if you are the closest I will link to your profile/blog in my next post and hail your prediction skills. I promise to run my fastest!
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Good luck in the race, I predict 27:10. Go Beth Go!
Good luck! I predict 26.52 (an 8:40 pace)
Beth, you are fast!! You will run a 27:24! Good luck, friend!
I'm thinking an 8:30 pace for about 26:22. Good luck. What race are you doing?
Since you've been training for a half marathon, I'm sure you'll be faster than your 9:16 pace. Pluse last spring you were recovering from winter. Don't worry about your 5K time, your half is more importan–it will show up on Athlinks!
Hope you get in to NY. Happy T-day!
Hi Beth,
Good Luck in the Turkey Trot 5K. They have a Turkey Trot around here (just like everywhere I would guess) that is actually a prediction run race. You are not allowed to wear a watch and the winners are the ones who most closely predict their own times.
As for your race. No idea, but if I must, I say an ever 26:00. Have Fun!
25:30 – Your faster then you give yourself credit. Don't worry about the clock and let yourself fly.
25:40
Burn off those Thanksgiving calories before you even eat them!
I was going to guess 26 flat, but I will go with 25:50. Are you coming to the StL to run? I am running in Chesterfield. Should be a nice day to run. Good luck!
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