Snowman Shuffle 10K and 5K

On January 15 I ran in the Snowman Shuffle 10K and 5K at Winfrey Park in White Rock Lake. Both races started together at 9:00 AM. This was a www.whiterockracing.com event, and there were many great sponsors including Run-On!, Baylor Sports Care, Davis Creative, and Dr. Laura Walker, a chiropractor and massage therapist. As I have said before I have avascular necrosis in both hips and other sore leg muscles. Dr. Walker was very helpful, and gave me a massage to parts that were sore and tight after running. She is very good, and you can check out her website at www.lwalkerdc.wordpress.com/.   There was a light drizzle and some fog the morning of the race, and I could not see very well. My glasses kept getting fogged up, and rained on, which made it kind of difficult to avoid the puddles. On a side note, toward the beginning of the race, I saw Craig Miller of The Ticket, which is a local sports radio station. He finished 9 overall in the 5K race with a time of 19:27 and won his age group. I started about 10 rows back. Since I was entered in the 10K race, I decided after last week to start off a little slower so I would be stronger at the finish.   There were 154 10K finishers and 142 5K finishers. This race started the opposite way around the lake from the last weeks race. There was a training group running around the lake at the same time as our race and they had their own mile markers set up. I became confused at different points in the race because of the different mile markers. When I arrived at the first mile marker, my time was 8:40. I could not see the times on my timer because of the rain, but I collected it after the race. At the 2 mile my time was 17.34 or (8:54/m). My 3 mile time was 26:34 (9:34/m) then I came to the turnaround and headed to the 4 mile marker with a time of 35:29 (8:55/m). My 5 mile time was 44:35 (9:06/m). At this point, I was getting very tired, but I tried to finish a fast as I could. My 6 mile time was 53:32. I forgot to stop my watch at the end of the race again, but my finishing time was 56:10.09, which was a little faster than last weeks PR time.   Place    Bib#     Men Overall     Overall     Pace      Time  6/7      1087         46/82          78/154    9:02/m   56:10:09 I run to raise awareness for prostate cancer and to benefit my community. www.runningforacause.tumblr.com