5K run

You put it on, you lace it up, and you know this very well.

On race day, sometimes you end up relacing your shoe four times and it still doesn't feel right the first 5K and so on and so forth.

They say, hey, you slip it on, you lace it once, and you have, it's go time.

So I think this is probably the best feedback that we can get from the athletes where it doesn't become a, I need to do this or I need to do that.

And yet here I am, um, standing at the finish, having done it, done exactly what I said I would do, 33 hours, you know, on pace, running at the end, not running fast, but running at the end.

I think at one point, yeah, I looked at my watch with 5K to go and I had 40 minutes to do it and I ended up doing it in 35, 36 minutes.

So you do the maths on that, you know, not fast, but definitely not walking.

And yeah, I couldn't really believe I had done it Um, someone cracked open a bottle of Prosecco, which was great.

Or maybe you're fueling for a amount, an amount of running or a sport that you're not doing anymore.

Like maybe you're fueling like you were when you were running 5Ks, but now you're training for a marathon or like a multi-day event like the Dopey Challenge, and you haven't adjusted your fueling whether you're running five kilometers today or 30, right? And so just not having a good, personalized, comprehensive fueling strategy, um, is really what can be holding you back.

So it might be that your eating is just all over the map.

You don't have a plan, right? You wake up in the morning.

And the Tahoe Trail Running Series offers a few distance races on the TRT, and they take place in August.

The Spooner Lake, 5K and 10K.

And the Marlette, 50K and 10 miler.

And those are, like I said, that takes place in August.

It's a

different feeling, eh? Running 5K hard and then jump on the bike and your heart rates through the roof.

And you're like, surely I've got this.

And you're like, nah.

They are so painful, though.

They're way more painful than an Olympic distance.

And then when you finish that 5K going, oh, that's done, you're riding the whole 40Ks going, I don't want to do the last

10.

But actually, no, today I feel like going this longer route.

And yeah, like yesterday I went for a walk and I was like, I want to go for 5K.

And I then took an extra detour and ended up becoming a 6K walk.

There you go.

And I went, okay.

So for some reason, the guy at work was doing marathons.

And I was like, for some reason, I went, okay, I'm going to do a 5K.

He said, no, do a 10K.

Yeah.

And actually going for that 5K, 10K with a group of people on a Wednesday night that I look forward to at the end of a tough day.

No way I can replicate that.

And I think it's how those worlds sort of converge.

So I started lifting weights that, you know, put me on a little bit of a path towards fitness.

But it really changed my senior year of college when my mom randomly signed up my entire family for a 5K race.

So I've got eight siblings, and I don't think quite all of us were there, but at least six of us were running this 5K at the Milwaukee County Zoo.

And yeah, so I trained up for that just to make sure that I could actually run three miles.

I had to walk a lot of it still.

But something about finishing that 5K really got me.

And then a few months later, I ran an 8K, and then I just jumped into marathons.

And I just loved it.

It's not equal.

5K, 10K, half marathon, full marathon, you're not going to have equal taper.

And I tend to think of the taper in relation to the longest distance of the race.

So a half marathon and two course challenge, those two types of races are going to have the same taper because of the longest distance of the race.

Same thing with how long the arrow is.

how big the bow is, there is a certain amount to pull it back to.

Same thing with our race distance, which is why 5K taper is not the same as 10K taper, is not the same as half marathon taper, is not the same as marathon taper.

The longer the arrow, the further you can pull it back.