Crim 2010 results

This past Saturday was the CRIM Festival of races 10 Mile run in Flint, MI. It was my third consecutive year running the CRIM. I really do like this race. 10 miles is a great racing distance. My results so far are a 1:44:14 in a super hot 2008, and a 1:26:37 in a perfect weather 2009.

This year the weather was very nice. It did warm up towards the end of the race, but I'm pretty sure we started the race with the temps in the low to mid 60's. My final official time was 1:24:04. I was sort of going for a sub 1:25 time. Overall I wanted to just run well and injury free. I can certainly tell I'm a newb at the racing aspect of running. I backed off a few times because my heart rate was climbing fast and I didn't want to crash at the end. However, I still felt great at the end and probably could have knocked those last 4 seconds off to go sub 1:24. My hope next year is to run a sub 80 minute run, but I'll let my fitness level next year dictate that.

My splits for the race:
Mile Time Moving Time
1 0:08:08 0:08:06
2 0:07:58 0:07:56
3 0:08:19 0:08:16
4 0:08:21 0:08:22
5 0:08:20 0:08:16
6 0:08:42 0:08:40
7 0:08:21 0:08:19
8 0:08:30 0:08:27
9 0:08:21 0:08:15
10 0:08:16 0:08:13


That mile 6 is all uphill basically, and mile 8 picks up another hill not as bad.

I'm very happy with these results. This next week mileage approaches 45 miles, and I have a 20 mile training run on the marathon course this coming Saturday that I'm anxious to run.