5k Race at the Camp - Health Fest 2007

2007 annual 5k Camp health fest run was rescheduled for today. Still not the greatest day, but alright. PyZahl attached his number to his Asymptotes jersey, put a warm Fleece on and went to the start to check out what's up and some little warm-up. Terry was already jogging around, but nobody else but the staff setting up the big timer... Little chilly. Twenty minutes to start. Scouting it all out and getting the engine little running and warm... Campers slowly gathering at the starting area and moving around in a brownian motion way. PyZahl found a good place on a branch to put his jacket and water bottle. All seamed like routine, but his first Camp 5k, the second timed 5k over all. Finding a bathroom in a long building close to the start was not as easy as suggested.

The Course

12:02, a few minutes to start, the crowd moved to the start little down the road. Ready and Troeoeoet -- the pack stared out. PyZahl tried to keep his speed little above 15km/h by using his GPS, but limiting his HR below 185 or so -- well, in theory. If he would have had set that damn thing to "data every second" and "no auto pause" and would have had adjusted the damn HR belt better to stay in place... all hi tec was a bit fu**** up -- so what, there was a little number of runners ahead at good pace, but they seam to drop back soon and he had to take care not getting stuck behind one slowing down, but keeping up his pace, he felt good and easy going, regardless some fluctuating useless GPS speed numbers around 13...20km/h -- very precise BS. At about km two there was only Terry far ahead and two more in between Terry and PyZahl, he getting little closer to those ahead. He started out to slow it seamed and was going pretty easy, to easy. HR numbers were useless fluctuating, and fiddling with that belt was not so efficient for running either...

Somewhere at km three at the loop at the Science Museum, a wide gap behind him, no one, and a decent gap in front, that's bad, nothing to hang on, there the route folded back into itself and he run into the upcoming riders (Uoops, runners), he was not sure when to pick up speed, he had no good clue about his HR but felt alright, not even burning legs, nothing, all good. With one km to go he decided to go for it and picked up little speed, came closer, but the finial sprint was not sufficient to catch Nº3 within a second or so...

Something was odd, where was the big clock, but no time. It gave up due to some rain, how funny. But luckily, they had a backup stop watch. Seams all hi-tec wasn't working proper today. But the runners were working OK. Most important. Not knowing any time for a while... 19:42 seamed to be the number later.

At the finish, the drizzle got little more intense, the later the wetter they got.... Here Randy, good job!


Little more hanging out with colleagues in the still intensifying drizzle... well, it is getting cold, it is getting wet, he picked up his T and wend back to his office, looking for a warm shower. Not really sweating at all, weired, just to chilly to sweat. He should have or could have run faster today. So what. Let's try out that all new shower in that all new Nano Camp home. He wanted a hot shower............. but all he got was cold water.............. for several minutes............... what dude did designed that house infrastructure????? He started showering fairly cold, slowly, very slowly, it really got warm. There must be miles of pipes to warm up.