Master runner

Met Danny and Jimbo for some early dirt road miles

Pf solo with 7 x 15sec strides@ 5k

did some warm up miles at wmh track and then did some 400 m repeats at 5k pace recovery was 200m ran mostly with Jazz. group much smaller prob 10-15 total 

ran out of the house over to the grass track..man oh man was it hot... took a bottle of nuun with me. made a gatorade slush when i got home $$$$

Pf out and back did 6x30 sec on the way back with 1:30 recovery

Jogged Brookhaven course backwards to look at tangents with Jason H. Feeling good and fresh for tomorrow. 

We picked up Sammy Kiplagat at the bus station and had some Subway lunch with him and Scotty. 

Oughta be a fast race tomorrow. Master All-time record 5k going down and possible all time Women record. 

Woke up at 5 and had my normal coffee and oatmeal then made my way to Norman town for the annual brookhaven 5k. This year they carted in some really fast runners from TX. including Sammy Kiplagat who ended up winning out the masters and takin 2nd place overall with a 15:05. 1st Place went to Benson Chesang 14:56. 

The heat/high humidity/dew point  in my opinion had a lot to do with the slower times. I was really expecting to run a faster time but it just didn't happen. 

Roger, Jason H, Court and Danny Ponder all jogged out on the warm up and Rog, Court and I stopped at the little park just past 1k and did our stretches. I jogged down to almost 2k then turned back doing some 10 sec pickups..Got back to the start line with about 5-10 min to go and made a quick trip to CVS and hit the restroom. 

I lined up with Amanda G on the far s. side and we took off pretty good. It was a clean start and I felt comfortable with the pace. I hit the first k in about 5:00 flat and brought it down some though the first mile. I had the lead girl and her pacer catch and pass me at 1.5 mile and another local runner. I tucked in and folllowed them till just before the 4k marker and surged around them and made my way up the only hill. I was kinda winded at the top of the hill and pushed my way the best I could. 

I heard a familiar "pick up the pace ol man" at .5 to go when Scotty D made his way closer to me. I was really kinda shocked that he wasn't in-front of me but later found out he was pacing one of his high school kids... None the less I did pick up the pace and didn't let him pass me. 

When I turned the corner off of Robinson I could read the clock at 16 and some change and new i was really gonna have to pick it up if I wanted to PR. I did the best I could to make it but fell 2 sec shy of my PR.  I did manage to get a course PR for myself and took home 2nd place master money of 50 bucks. 

Had a great time afterwards with a lot of great running friends..

Gus Thompson giving Sammy Kiplagat and I master $$. I think Sammy's legs are taller than me.