Purity Moosic 10K

The start line—maybe 1400 runners/walkers?

This morning's race I completed in 49:06.

Running pictures are always so attractive

I was the 26th female (of 366), 102 overall (of 627; 851 did the 5K). Before that I had to do a 1:15 ride (on the trainer to get a legit brick workout. Then it was off to the park for a Harpeth Bike Club picnic.

This is a slightly better picture of me, which is why I captured it even tho it's mainly of some random guy (with a great bib number)

Overall results from the Garmin:

• 49:06, 6.25 miles, 7:52 pace (6:12 best), 178 HR (188 max)
  

My first 3 miles were at the perfect pace, although I see that I did get progressively slower:

• 7:26, 7:37, 7:42

Right after the 5K mark, I got super hungry and felt like I was really slowing down. I ate some Power Bar Gel Blasts which helped, but it still felt like my stomach was empty. I also had about 2 oz of water at the mile 4 water station. The rest of the stats looked like this:

• 0.48 mi, 7:54 pace
• 0.52 mi, 8:17 pace
• 0.44 mi, 8:08 pace
• 0.56 mi, 8:12 pace
• 1 mi, 8:18 pace
• 0.25 mi, 7:45 pace

So I definitely slowed down, and that really hurt my pace. I got beat my 2 girls in my age group by 9 seconds. Ouch. Especially since I could pretty much see them the entire time.

Blogs from previous 10Ks:

Purity 10K, April '09

Franklin Classic, September '09

Other various blogs

The best one: (45-ish time)