Bricktown Blaze 5K

Okay, for real, I'm going to do this.  No need to catch everything up... except to say.

A new PR!  24:51 in the Bricktown Blaze 5K, a cool little course featuring the OKC Redhawks bricktown stadium.  I ran with Larry Grable, one of my bosses, who, thankfully, runs about my target pace of 8:10 a mile.  The course was an out-and-back, basically, starting in Bricktown and heading north past the Presbyterian Health Foundation.  Larry and I didn't talk except to share splits.  

The first half of the out-and-back is uphill, so when I reached 3km at 15:05, I knew I'd be in okay shape.  I did kick the last 100m or so even though I felt like sub 25 would happen - the result was a nice 8 second improvement over my last PR from almost one year ago to the day!  My estimated splits are sorta like this:

1km 4:45

2km 5:05

3Km 5:15

4Km 5:03

5km 4:43

I'm looking for an 8K or a 10K to do in the next month to see if I can run that far on a knee which is suffering from some ITBS, but we'll see how it goes - only small 5Ks in OKC for the next few weeks.  Chicago Marathon training starts soon!