On March 17, 2012, I ran in one of my favorite races of the year... The Dash Down Greenville 5k. This is the third race of the 7 Run On! Project Series. After the race, Run On! handed out a $60,000 check to the North Texas Food Bank.
After ariving early to find parking, it started raining which pushed temperatures close to 70 degrees by race time. It was very humid. There were over 7,600 runners registered for the Dash. Some registered late without chip timing. Thanks to Mark Cuban and other merchants, the annual parade that started after the race was amazing. I stayed and took a few pictures as usual.
This race did not have a turnaround. It started out on Greenville Ave, and circled back around to finish with a long dash down Greenville to the finish. I started about 10 rows back. The Sunday Edition of The Dallas Morning News had a color photo of us lining up at the start.
The Run On! website has over 100 photos of the race... I showed up in 3 of them. Thanks to the Gerry Glover Photography team. I stated like most of my 5k races... as fast as I can... just following the large crowd of runners. I knew I would not get lost in this race because there were more than enough people to follow. After about a mile and a half, I started to get fatigued with the humidity climbing. Several Run On! runners passed me and encouraged me, like 72 year old Jim Sampson who finished in the time of 22:29... incredible! I took a picture with Jan Goss (24:19), her son, and long time Run On! team runner, 75 year old Larry Martin who finished in 34:58.
I waited until the home stretch to increase my pace because if I would have done so earlier, I would have ran out of gas. I gave what I could, passing some runners, while other passed me up. I was totally exhausted and finished in 25:06...30 seconds slower than my time in last years race.
The female 25-29 age group had 822 total finishers which was more than the total for most entire races that I've run. I finished sixth out of 25 in my age group and 521 out of 5035 chip timed overall finishers with a pace of 8:06.
I'd like to thank my Run On! speed training coach Daniel Hagelberg and all the encouragement that I recieved from our speed group.
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Place Bid# Overall Time Pace
6/25 653 521/5035 25:06 8:06
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