Hope In Motion 5K Race Report

From June 3, 2012

3.1 Miles
23:42 Time
7:39 Pace

110/823 Overall Top 13.4%
86/370 Men Top 23.2%
32/105 Men 30-39 Top 30.5%

Average Time/Pace 30:15/9:45
Median Time Pace 31:31/10:10

I spoke to my friend Ron before the race and he said he was trying to beat 21 minutes. 3 minutes into the race, I saw him and said it looks like you won't be running it in 21 minutes because we aren't going sub 7 pace. He looked at his watch and said "oh yeah, this is 6:36 pace." Though about 3 minutes later I lost site of him, and was passed by a fair amount of people. He said he finished 20:10. My phone couldn't get a signal so I don't know my splits.

I also saw my neighbor who I had never spoke to but had seen running around, and chatted with her for the first time. I started very close to the start, as I didn't see any starting mat so I though they might be using gun time, not net time. This was more of a charity event, and it seemed to be more geared for the walk event than the run event. I wore my Backyard Humanitarian shirt, a group I have volunteered with and other members of the group did the walk.