Waiting2goback
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 28, 2014
QOTD: Do you or have you practiced a race? What I mean by that is, have you raced a 5k, 10k, ect that is not actually a race? Why did you? If you have not done this before, why?
ATTQOTD: I have. It's usually for short distance races like the 5k and 10k. I did it to get a good idea of where I was fitness wise to develop training paces as well as just to practice being at that pace and seeing how it feels.
I would say unintentionally I have. The first year I ran, when I knew even less than I know now, I ran every run as hard as I could. So every run was a race to me. I was so afraid of getting swept at TOT that I thought I just had to run as hard as I could all of the time. Now, I clearly don't do that and I don't do any practice races. I put in my training the best I can and I hope race day is one of those "effortless runs" that sometimes happens during training, as opposed to one of the brutal runs where you question why you run at all. That's my strategy.
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