Today I ran in the Dallas Hot Chocolate 15k. It was a cool 30 something with an overcast and a little wind. Overall it is a nice course with one or two hills. The largest hill is in the middle of the course between the 5 and 6 mile markers that has a elevation gain of about 80 feet in 0.2 miles. Something to be aware of is that the first 3.1 miles or 5k is a gradual uphill. I have run parts of this route going the other direction (Dallas RnR and Big D (Half) Marathon) so it was something a little different.
The only criticism I really had was that the first Gatorade stop (not the first water stop) before you got to the 4 mile marker had run out of Gatorade when I got to there. There was plenty of water but I prefer to drink some type of sport drink for this type of race or longer.
There were tons, and I do mean tons, of volunteers at the event and I found all of them to be very helpful. There were also quite a few at the finish line and we giving me words of encouragement and congratulations. I really wish more of the larger events were run this well. I really liked the fact that there records splits at the 5k and 10k marks plus they had race clocks at every mile.
I ran just slightly slower than my desired training pace which is anything under 10:00 per mile but I will gladly take 10:09/mile since I am still recovering from a cold. I also think part of the reason I struggled with this race is that I didn't eat something before hand and so I started out the race with a half full tank. I guess this further proves I Must eat something before a training run or a race even if I don't feel hungry.
Official Time: 1:34:30
5k Split: 29:33
10k Split: 1:01:53
Garmin GPS Stats
This was the second run I have done with my new Garmin Forerunner 620. I still love this watch but since I downloaded the 2.5 update the watch didn't record mile splits. It was cycling through the different screens which was cool to look at while running. If Garmin were to see this post, I'd hope that in the future they make sure the watch gets defaulted to factory settings
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