On saturday I ran the It’s A Wonderful Run 5k in Seneca Falls. This run is more of a party than a race, but I finished in 28:04 on a course that was very cold.
I was shockingly consistent with my pace over the race, finishing mile one in 9:05 and averaging 9:02 across the full race. I was stopping for drinks along the route, but the only thing that really slowed me down was the midrace egg nog from the shotski.
This should be my final race of 2025, with many more races coming in 2026.
On Saturday afternoon I ran the It’s a Wonderful Run 5k in Seneca Falls. I finished the race in 26:22 averaging 8:30 miles which is a pretty good pace for the number of stops that I made.
The weather was colder than the past few years, but the streets were clear and easy to run on. The main area where I lost time was in waiting for three others for the shot-ski.
As the weather gets cold, this will probably be my last race for the year.
For the second year in a row, I ran the It’s a Wonderful Run 5k in Seneca Falls. I finished in 28:20, which is an ok time as this event is more of a party than a race.
The weather was very good for the race (and unseasonable warm for December), which actually left me a little disappointed that I was two minutes behind my time from last year. Perhaps running with a strand of Christmas lights around my neck made me less aerodynamic.
This was probably my last race of the year, hopefully I find something to run in January.
On Saturday I ran the It’s A Wonderful Run 5k in Bedford Falls Seneca Falls. This was my first time doing this Christmas themed run.
I completed the course in 25:42 which considering all the stops that were made to take shots of fireball is actually a pretty quick time. Given the crowds and the weather it probably would have been tricky to challenge my time from October, so this race turning into a drinking event was probably the right call.
This is almost certainly my last race of the year, and perhaps even the last race until St. Patrick’s Day.
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