Officially Lucky ❡ a blog by Clint Ecker

Ran this last night with Jacqui and Chris.  It was at 6:30pm on July 30.  It was humid and roughly ~80°F.  So it was pretty tough, I generally head to the gym when it gets too humid or much hotter than 80.

That being said, I pushed and I did respectable, but my slowest 5k race time to date.  My final numbers:

• Total time: 29:46
• Pace: 9:35
• Placing: 
  • Overall: 1336/2414 - 55%
  • Sex: 785/1116 - 70%
  • Age Group: 154/200 - 77% (25-29 year olds)

The upside here is that I did really awesome in my first 2 miles.  I hit the first mile marker at ~8:55 and the second mile marker at ~18:00.  Thereabouts I had some horrible lower back muscle cramps/pain.  It felt like a horrible stabbing pain on my right side.  I ran on it at my pace for a while but it was intolerable and I had to slow it down a bit.  It eventually subsided towards the end of the run, but the damage was done!

I’m still pretty proud of the good time (for me) in the hot/humid weather.  On the plus side, I sweated so much I had a great weigh-in this morning, 214.  Lowest of the summer so far!