I ran the Pinnacle Mountain 5K in a senior PR 1:06:41, but kind of cheated. My splits were 9:20, 20:09 (29:29), 19:17, and 17:54. Bob Marston ran the base trail with me. He also does the Pinnacle Mountain 5K, but starts on the west side with the base trail, so he was fresh and I ran quite a bit more than normally to not interfere with his effort, and consequently chopped 2:11 from my recent base-trail record. Still, it all seemed easy, though overall I was 57 seconds faster than my time from March 17. I will consider starting with Bob on the west side next week, though he told me he usually runs the event in 55 minutes. I don't think I can go that fast. Apparently Bob is a little less fearful of falling than I, or else he lied when he told me a sub-55 five-mile road run is all he can manage.
Tonight's jog wasn't as easy as my last, but I learned something, I think. My legs felt beat to flakes when I started the Sweetheart Loop, at about 8 Central, from walking First Tee in 78-degree sunshine with Randall Hunhoff. I went as slowly as possible to start, trudged up the F Street Hill, but thereafter felt better as I progressed, and finished in 32:35, with splits of 12:04, 10:40, and 9:51.
Sometimes, at least, with patience, I can run after golf. I played the best I have played this year this afternoon; I scored a 48 at First Tee, with 1 par, 5 bogies, 2 doubles, and 1 triple. I used 16 putts.
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