Last Saturday I made my way to Benton, Arkansas for the 34th annual Arkansas 20k. Exactly how far is a 20k? It’s 12.4 miles… or in my case 12.5 if you don’t run the tangents just right! Since it’s one of the longer races on the Grand Prix schedule I was doing this one solo without the kids. I made the trip to Benton with a few of my Searcy Rush teammates. We arrived in Benton with about 45 minutes…
I NEVER went into the Ark Classic 5k thinking I might break 18 minutes. It wasn’t even on my radar. Last month I couldn’t even break 19 (although I’d like to blame 90 degrees and tired legs) so I did not have high expectations just four weeks later. Since this was a shorter distance Grand Prix race not too far from our house we brought the older two kids. On the way to the North Little Rock we dropped off…
Racing an all out mile is by far the most intimidating distance to me. For the last three years I have raced the mile once each summer. My time has gone from 5:17 in 2013 to 5:20 in 2014 and then even slower this year with a 5:31. For whatever reason I was a little off this June at GoMile in Little Rock so I was very tempted to redeem myself when I had the chance. I had already registered…