Seacoast Running Festival 10k

If the Triple Threat Half Marathon was a killer, the Seacoast 10k course is built for speed. Very flat, and a slight downhill from start to finish, with a couple slight uphill sections. It was a pretty good day for running as well, in the 70's and cloudy for most of the race.

I had planned on running with Ellen, but I felt a lot of juice in my legs during the warmup so I decided to try for a PR. The race was timed by Racewire but, oddly, the start did not have the timing mats. So we pushed to the front of the corral and got off right with the gun.

The course, while flat and fast, is a little odd. It includes running along roads, a rail trail, a wooden bridge, through parking lots and a park. The mile markers were not correct according to my GPS, which is not always accurate but never two tenths of a mile off. And my GPS recorded 6.2 miles at the finish so it was accurate assuming the course length was correct. The bad mile markers set up a bit of a false hope as I thought I had a chance to break 46 minutes as I passed the 6 mile mark. But when I turned onto the homestretch I could see the finish line and it was clearly more than 1/4 mile away (when it should have been two tenths of a mile).

In any case, I ran a good race and PR'd by three minutes finishing in 46:23. My splits:

1. 7:42
2. 7:39
3. 7:22
4. 7:29
5. 7:28
6. 7:20

It was a good day all around for the Tye family, as we all PR'd by several minutes. Ellen knocked 5 minutes off of her North Andover 10k down to 52:33, and Ethan took about 3 minutes of his N.A time to 45:12.