This was the Phoenix 10K in 2010, on Sunday, November 7th. Nailed both major goals for all races: 1) finish the race; 2) don’t finish last. Bonus: beat the race host, Dr. Art Mollen. All he saw was my taillights disappearing in the distance. Did not beat Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman, though. Those young guys!

A 10K is fun to do now and again, just to test my training. In this case, 2 or 3 runs per week of 5 miles per run. It is easier to recover from just a few runs per week instead of overdoing it like I used to do. Just paying attention to the Creakiness Quotient.

Race Results

My official time was 1:05:45. I could have sworn that it felt faster than that!

That put me at 1145th place.

I could have won the 85-89 year age bracket, since there were no entrants in that bracket.

I could have won the 90-94 year age bracket, since the only entrant in that bracket finished in 1:31:41.46.

All I have to do is keep up my current speed for another 23 years or so!

Turkey Trot 10K Update

The Mesa Mi Amigo’s Turkey Trot is also a fun race, so I got back into that race again this year. Bonus is getting another T-shirt. Thanksgiving Day. Maybe 2,500 entrants in the 10K. Great way to earn the dinner to come later in the day.

Race Results:

Hit both goals again – i.e., finished the race and did not finish last.

Official time: 1:01:56.

This put me at 17th out of 36 in my age bracket. Who were those slow old guys behind me, I wonder.

Getting up some speed now and will break that magic hour barrier with a little more training. This is the first time in a few years that I ran sub-10-minute miles (9.99 to be exact), so that felt good.

My Reality

Again, I could have sworn that I was going faster. Maybe a little oxygen deprivation set in with my high speed. Who knows. That’s my reality and I’m sticking to it.