{"id":145,"date":"2008-04-28T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2008\/road-ends-5-miler\/"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:01:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:01:26","slug":"road-ends-5-miler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/28\/road-ends-5-miler\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Ends 5 Miler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the local Running Fit stores hold what is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GSlideshows\/Road_Ends_Album_08\/index.html\"><strong> &#8220;The Road Ends 5 Mile Trail Race&#8221; also billed as &#8220;No Wimps Allowed!&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> race in Pinckney Michigan. This is the short version of the Trail Marathon and half marathon held the following day at the same location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GSlideshows\/Road_Ends_Album_08\/Slides\/Roads%20End%205M%202008-04-26%20004a.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"The start and finish line for the Trail Marathon and Road Ends 5 Mile race.\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GSlideshows\/Road_Ends_Album_08\/Slides\/Roads%20End%205M%202008-04-26%20018%20330px.jpg\" alt=\"Just to prove I was really registered for the race... although I could have grabbed this out of the recycle barrel after the race.\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Added a nice new T-Shirt to the small, but growing, collection.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GSlideshows\/Road_Ends_Album_08\/Slides\/Roads%20End%205M%202008-04-26%20024.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"The official Results to prove I earned my T-Shirt!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GSlideshows\/Road_Ends_Album_08\/Slides\/Roads%20End%205M%202008-04-26%20012a300.jpg\" alt=\"The official Road Ends participant T-Shirt art work.\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Some stats for the race:<br \/>\na) 5 Miles, not a 5K<br \/>\nb) finished 276 out of 355<br \/>\nc) <del>finished fifth out of five<\/del> in my age group&#8230;. later adjusted to sixth out of six.<br \/>\nd) won my first &#8220;award&#8221; for the fifth place, but later seems I should not have after results were adjusted&#8230;. oh well.<br \/>\ne) took a great tumble skinning up a knee and (can this be done?) spraining a foot, not an ankle.<br \/>\nf) learned to make sure I remove glasses before I take off on a run! (The bifocals make seeing your feet difficult without looking down, thus losing the ability to see where you are going.)<br \/>\ng) had a 11:09 pace (55:44 total time)<br \/>\nh) had a great time in spite of e above, and since it was the first 5 mile I have run another new PR! Hey, three races, three new personal records, what&#8217;s so hard about this?<\/ul>\n<p>The course is at the State Park in Pinckney Michigan. The area is relatively hilly, and the course takes great advantage of that. There are a couple gentle hills to sort of warm up on, and then a couple monster &#8220;never ending grades&#8221; that will make the thighs burn, and these come after the 3 mile marker, so <del>you are<\/del> I am already running on shaky legs! Yeah, I walked part of them, I am sure this contributed to the slower overall pace since I have been keeping it to around 10 minutes on flatter courses. This shows a need to get more hill work in, maybe need to find a stadium with steps to run up&#8230; or maybe even enter the annual climb at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center.<\/p>\n<ul> Full Climb 70 Floors &#8211; 1035 Steps<br \/>\nHalf Climb 40 Floors &#8211; 585 Steps<br \/>\nYeah, right . . . . Oh, I would have, but already missed it for this year, darn. (It was Sunday, February 24, 2008)<\/ul>\n<p>I also cannot figure out how the course can gain over 1,000 feet in total altitude, but never descends more that 50 feet total through the course. . .  or at least it seems that way.<\/p>\n<p>Update May 1, 2008: I was kidding about the elevation above, but I just got the weekly email from the sponsors &#8220;Running Fit&#8221; and they had this to say about the race:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As usual,  the weather was spectacular and everyone set a P.R.! (Seriously, we just checked out the vertical  climb in each loop of the half marathon and it was over 7,000 ft! <strong>For those of you who ran the 5, a very serious  5, it had over 3,000 ft of climb!&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now this to me seems like a serious amount of climbing to me! No wonder the legs grew weary!<\/p>\n<p>I did have the old Peugeot 10 speed out awhile back. The tires still held air, and I did a couple miles around the neighbourhood to see if I could still stay upright. Seemed to provide pretty good thigh exercise also, maybe need to get out on it more often. . .  or maybe even squats (?) to build them up.<\/p>\n<p>Well, nursing the foot now, resting it a couple of days, then have to get back on the path. Need to keep on track since I have the Toledo Zoo and Mackinaw Bridge races coming up in just a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Until the final bruise heals,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 26, 2008 a 5 mile trail run at the state park&#8230; a single track with lots of hills, rocks and roots to trip you up if you  are not careful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[50,32,203,204,49],"series":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-5m","tag-exercise","tag-race","tag-running","tag-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}