Friday, March 16, 2007

StarFlight 5K will not lead to a pot of Gold.

I just downloaded the race course and it's quite apparent, that this will be a tough tough 5k(3.1miles), and won't lead to my ultimate goal of runnign a sub 20 min 5K.
The course is in and around Zilker Park.

Two big hills. One at 1.5miles, one at 2.9miles.

Hill 1: As you run past Barton Springs pool you head towards Mopac, take a right by the trail head, and head up that hill. OUCH.

Hill 2: We then loop around, come back the way we came running past Barton Springs Pool and then run UP the downhill you take with you car to go to the Pool. DOUBLE OUCH.

This is going to suck, but I'm looking forward to it. I'll be happy with sub 20:30.

3 comments:

Ron B. said...

Good luck and have a good race. Last year was the first I believe, and they had some problems.

Something about the course being short, I think it was actually 2.85 miles.

You are getting a cool technical shirt though, right?

Lulu said...

It is way too early to be giving up. You are letting me down grasshopper.

MW said...

Lulu, I'm not giving up.

Ron, The stupid shirt doesn't have a Helicopter on it which I thought it would. That was part of the reason i signed up. But yes, it's a tech shirt, and it's nice quality.

I'm going to kill the competition in the hills.