This Saturday I have another 5K.  I am starting to get the excited/ nervous feeling already.  5K’s used to be a personal race favorite of mine for many years.  I loved the speed, the shorter distance.  I thought people were crazy for racing anything more.  Why race a 10K when you could run a 5K? Then I started running longer distances and entered into a new world of half and full marathons.  This was a new kind of racing.  The training was different but it was rewarding in a new way. Now I look at 5K’s as if they were the 100 yard dash. 

So here I am.  Back to my old faithful 5K. I can honestly say that I will probably never set a PR in this distance again and I am ok with that! That probably sounds very pessimistic but I don’t mean it to be.  I am just being realistic.  My fastest 5K is an 18:32.  That is a 5:57 average for 3.1 miles. I ran this fast when I was 19. I have *only* run in the 18’s 4 times in my life.  Most of my 5 K’s from high school though college were in the mid 19’s.  My main racing strategy: sprint, hold on and collapse at the end!