Kazrak
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Race report: Brazen Almost New Years Eve 10k.
I went into this knowing I was undertrained and not going to do well. I completely met expectations.
This was, notably, the first (and likely only) time we had the whole family out for a race. My wife (@AnotherCrazyMom) and daughter were also doing the 10k, my sons were doing the 5k, with my older son planning to just walk it.
The New Years Eve races are at Quarry Lakes in Fremont, about half an hour from our house, It's a very flat and scenic course, and Brazen uses it three times a year: NYE 5k/10k/half, the 'Quarry Turkey' 5k/10k/half on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and the Western Pacific Marathon in April, their only full marathon and a Boston qualifier. (They also do 5k/10k/half with Western Pacific.) We've run here several times before, and know the course fairly well.
As stated, I'm undertrained and overweight (more so than usual) at the moment, and I knew this wasn't going to go well. But, time to go.
I set the watch to 2m/30s intervals, and ran through the first walk interval. First mile went well, coming in at 11:59. I knew I wasn't making a 1:15 proof of time, and decided to just see what I can do.
A little after a mile, my daughter caught up to me and said, "There's a guy here that's creeping me out, so I'm running with you for a while." So, we went along together for almost the entire remainder of the course.
My heart rate was spiking way up, peaking in the 190s, so I backed off on the speed, getting miles 2 and 3 in 13:21 and 14:56, respectively. We waved to my wife, who'd started at the back of the pack, just after we hit the turnaround at mile 3.5; she was probably a minute or two behind us. We didn't see the guy who'd been creeping my daughter out at any point here; we're unsure what happened.
We kept going, skipping the occasional run interval to let my heart rate recover. The remaining miles came in at 13:40, 14:40, and 15:21.
At about mile 6, my daughter decided that she wanted to push to the finish line, while I slowed down a bit. I looked back and saw that my wife was coming up behind me, so I stayed back until she caught up and we ran the last tenth or so together. I made the last corner a bit sharper than her, giving me a bit of a lead. She said, "Oh no you don't!" and sped up to catch up with me, and we crossed the finish line together. (Since she started later, this means she had a faster time.)
Sons had already finished the 5k, which started 15 minutes after the 10k. We met up for them over by the snacks. (One really nice thing about Brazen - they do a really good job on the snacks.) Older son has decided that this was okay but not really for him. Younger son just doesn't like getting up early. (Early, in this case, meant 'we need to be ready to leave the house by 8am.')
Overall time: 1:28:21, pace 14:15. Not a great time but better than I'd feared. Average heart rate 170, peak 196. (I think the Garmin may have been reading a bit high, but not more than a bit.)
We have the second half of this race pair, the New Years Day race on Wednesday. All of us but younger son are doing the 5k; younger son is just sleeping in. (The 10k course is evil and the half marathon course is worse; I'll talk more in the race report for that race.)
I went into this knowing I was undertrained and not going to do well. I completely met expectations.
This was, notably, the first (and likely only) time we had the whole family out for a race. My wife (@AnotherCrazyMom) and daughter were also doing the 10k, my sons were doing the 5k, with my older son planning to just walk it.
The New Years Eve races are at Quarry Lakes in Fremont, about half an hour from our house, It's a very flat and scenic course, and Brazen uses it three times a year: NYE 5k/10k/half, the 'Quarry Turkey' 5k/10k/half on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and the Western Pacific Marathon in April, their only full marathon and a Boston qualifier. (They also do 5k/10k/half with Western Pacific.) We've run here several times before, and know the course fairly well.
As stated, I'm undertrained and overweight (more so than usual) at the moment, and I knew this wasn't going to go well. But, time to go.
I set the watch to 2m/30s intervals, and ran through the first walk interval. First mile went well, coming in at 11:59. I knew I wasn't making a 1:15 proof of time, and decided to just see what I can do.
A little after a mile, my daughter caught up to me and said, "There's a guy here that's creeping me out, so I'm running with you for a while." So, we went along together for almost the entire remainder of the course.
My heart rate was spiking way up, peaking in the 190s, so I backed off on the speed, getting miles 2 and 3 in 13:21 and 14:56, respectively. We waved to my wife, who'd started at the back of the pack, just after we hit the turnaround at mile 3.5; she was probably a minute or two behind us. We didn't see the guy who'd been creeping my daughter out at any point here; we're unsure what happened.
We kept going, skipping the occasional run interval to let my heart rate recover. The remaining miles came in at 13:40, 14:40, and 15:21.
At about mile 6, my daughter decided that she wanted to push to the finish line, while I slowed down a bit. I looked back and saw that my wife was coming up behind me, so I stayed back until she caught up and we ran the last tenth or so together. I made the last corner a bit sharper than her, giving me a bit of a lead. She said, "Oh no you don't!" and sped up to catch up with me, and we crossed the finish line together. (Since she started later, this means she had a faster time.)
Sons had already finished the 5k, which started 15 minutes after the 10k. We met up for them over by the snacks. (One really nice thing about Brazen - they do a really good job on the snacks.) Older son has decided that this was okay but not really for him. Younger son just doesn't like getting up early. (Early, in this case, meant 'we need to be ready to leave the house by 8am.')
Overall time: 1:28:21, pace 14:15. Not a great time but better than I'd feared. Average heart rate 170, peak 196. (I think the Garmin may have been reading a bit high, but not more than a bit.)
We have the second half of this race pair, the New Years Day race on Wednesday. All of us but younger son are doing the 5k; younger son is just sleeping in. (The 10k course is evil and the half marathon course is worse; I'll talk more in the race report for that race.)
