On saturday morning I kicked off the 2025 running season with the five mile Running of the Green in downtown Rochester. I ran the course in 42:40 which was both not terrible, but also still a little slower than I had ran it the past two years.
The weather for the race was excellent, and I ran with the 8 min/mile pace group for the first mile and a half. After that I slowed down a bit, but given that my final pace was an 8:32 min/mile pace I was staying quicker than 9 minute miles all the way to the finish line. As much as I would have liked to be quicker, I knew that I went into the race a bit undertrained and that the ice of the past few month has kept my weekly mileage below where it should be.
This will probably be my only race in march, but I hope to run a few races in april.