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Today was the HoHoHo 5k race. It's a very popular holiday race here on Long Island. There were 1265 entrants! Tons of people wearing festive holiday gear. I added some LED light up earrings and red gloves. When the race started I was walking out of necessity.....there was a huge throng of people and no where to go!! I got off to a good start once the race for me began in earnest. Today I also decided to wear my lighter racing shoes as the weather was pretty good probably hi 40's. I was at a nice pace right off the top and not really huffin and puffin at all. I check my time the first mile: aprox. 8:49 m/m. Nice! I was pleased and made a plan to try and keep that pace as long as possible. Mile 2: 17:45....still going ok. Then about the last 1/2 mile I noticed I started to 'drag.' I was slowing down a bit......I hit the 3 mile marker at 27:00 flat and decided I was NOT going to let that timer go past 28 minutes!! I pushed it and crossed the line at 27:59!! And now the AG outcome: there were 19 in my AG...I came in 6th. There was a quite a bit of some heavy competition ahead of me but I was very pleased as that was 25 seconds off my last race PR. I felt very happy to have improved a bit. So overall: AG: 6th out of 19, Females: 126 out of 678, All entrants: 403 out of 1265! Happy race running today even though I didn't bring home some hardware!!
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