Homecoming 5k

Posted October 10, 2010 at 1:00 pm | Tags: hills, Lynchburg College, races | 20921 Comment »http%3A%2F%2Fwww.runningbecauseican.com%2Fhomecoming-5k%2FHomecoming+5k2010-10-10+17%3A00%3A18David+H.http%3A%2F%2Fwww.runningbecauseican.com%2F%3Fp%3D2092

I don’t have much to say about a 5k I did yesterday … one of the steepest hills I’ve encountered in a 5k absolutely killed my time. That being said, I ran a solid 25:12 in the first-ever 5k at Lynchburg College’s Homecoming.

I was on target for about 24 minutes until the route came back onto campus. Apparently the entrance has a name that didn’t exist when I went to school there — Entrance Hill. According to my Garmin, just after mile 2 I was at an elevation of 629 feet; at the peak of this hill just past 2.5 miles, I was at an elevation of 791 feet. The race had a total elevation gain of 367 feet.

To show at that hill killed my time, my splits were 7:28, 8:10 (which included a nice uphill of Faculty Drive in Lynchburg) and 9:33 in the final 1.1 miles. It was my slowest 5k in almost 5 years.

I’m certainly not complaining or disappointed. I’m happy with how things went and would not do anything different. It was awesome to have a race at my alma mater with about 40 other alumni, many of them former track stars in NCAA Division III athletics. And if they keep doing this every year, I have a new course record to break.