Great Race 10K Recap — Jennifer Konikowski

Last year’s Great Race was hot and miserable. This year was actually great. I had done a hard squat workout on Friday (which was a TERRIBLE idea), so my quads were still really sore on Sunday. I decided I wanted to PR my 5K and try to get under 25 minutes. Which isn’t the best plan for a 10K! But it worked out! I ran as hard as I could during the first half, hit my goal, then had to walk for a bit because I was DYING. After a minute of recover, I started running again and was mostly able to keep it up. The fifth mile was definitely the hardest for me and then I was able to push harder at the end to PR both my 10K and 5K by about 30 seconds each. My official 10K time was 53:19 (8:34/mile) and my 5K time was 24:55 (8:00/mile). I was 92/464 in my division (top 20%), 540/2,974 women (top 18%), and 1,715/5,776 overall (top 30%).

    
        Mile
        
            Pace
        
        
          
            GAP
                
        
        Elev
      

    
  1
  7:56/mi
  7:40/mi
  12 ft

  2
  7:31/mi
  7:52/mi
  -145 ft

  3
  8:20/mi
  8:20/mi
  -13 ft

  4
  9:09/mi
  9:28/mi
  -103 ft

  5
  9:42/mi
  9:08/mi
  37 ft

  6
  8:15/mi
  8:18/mi
  -128 ft

  0.32
  7:08/mi
  7:08/mi
  -5 ft