Pumpkin Chase

This Saturday John, Jen and I, will be running The Great Pumpkin Chase in downtown Harrisburg.

After this past Saturday’s 23:24 finish (did I mention I ran that in sub 24 minutes?) I wanted to publicly speculate about this race, just 7 days later.

Here is my current thinking. 1. No course, EVER, is as flat as CVRT. 2. I will put a LOT of pressure on myself for this race since I did well (for me) just a week ago.

This all leads me to believe, that for the first time in my new running career I will not PR in this 5K.

This race is also flat, and has the potential to be fast, but it’s not as flat as the last race (so I have been told). That alone is enough to make me think that I will simply run slower. I feel like I ran as fast as I could for that race last week, I am not going to get detectably faster in 7 days (not the way I train :).

Taking all that in, I am going to say just barely sub 24 will be my time (23:56/7:42 pace). Hopefully I can do it. Anything higher and I will be disappointed, anything better, elated.

Happy running!