{"id":1186,"date":"2009-03-19T08:17:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2009-03-30T22:15:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T03:15:59","slug":"race-plan-human-race-8k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/race-plan-human-race-8k\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Plan: Human Race 8K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tslevents.com\/TSL\/Graphics\/Logos\/hr2007_140.gif?w=625\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>This weekend is my first race for 2009.\u00a0 I ran the Human Race 8k last year, see my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-review-human-race-8k\/\">review<\/a>.\u00a0 I actually wrote a little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/human-race-8k\/\">preview <\/a>about it last year as well.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tslevents.com\/TSL\/Event\/Default.aspx?EID=92\">Human Race 8k<\/a> is put on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tslevents.com\/\">TSL Events<\/a> and has become the annual spring opener.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I finished in <strong>31:27.<\/strong> My goal going into last year was breaking 32 minutes which was a fairly arbitrary number but was based on my goal 10k time.\u00a0 That also represents my post-college PR.\u00a0 There aren&#8217;t many 8k around.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t actually remember my collegiate 8k PR, but I never broke 30 minutes, but it was below 31 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Race course is nicely designed for setting PR&#8217;s because the last half is downhill.<\/p>\n<p>I think my goal for this year will be to set a new PR &#8211; it would be nice to break 31 minutes but that might be stretching it.\u00a0 To PR would require running a 6:19 pace.\u00a0 That might be stretching it since I&#8217;ve\u00a0 not run that fast very often this training cylce.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n<p><em>This post was inspired by this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/what-is-your-strategy\/\">one<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Updated: <\/strong>Be sure to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/race-review-2009-human-race-8k\/\">how it went<\/a>!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[tags] Human Race 8k, St Paul, 8k [\/tags]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/443e5421-86c7-419e-a4da-e5e1f7a100d3\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is my first race for 2009.\u00a0 I ran the Human Race 8k last year, see my review.\u00a0 I actually wrote a little preview about it last year as well. The Human Race 8k is put on my TSL Events and has become the annual spring opener. Last year I finished in 31:27. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[309,13],"tags":[84,425,62,61],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8k","category-my-running","tag-events","tag-human-race","tag-running","tag-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-j8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":198,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/human-race-8k\/","url_meta":{"origin":1186,"position":0},"title":"Human Race 8K","author":"crossn81","date":"March 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"While I had already registered for my first race in 2008, the St Patrick's Day Human Race 8K will be the first one I'll run. 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The 8K distance is just short of 5 miles\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Running&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Running","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/my-running\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tslevents.com\/TSL\/Graphics\/Logos\/hr2007_140.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1201,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/race-review-2009-human-race-8k\/","url_meta":{"origin":1186,"position":1},"title":"Race Review: 2009 Human Race 8K","author":"crossn81","date":"March 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It was a gorgeous morning to go for a run, the afternoon was excellent as well.\u00a0 54 and sunny are pretty nice conditions for a race.\u00a0 The Human Race 8k is excellently managed by The Sporting Life (TSL) Events, a local race management company.\u00a0 This year's event featured biodegradable water\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8k&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8k","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/8k\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/running\/images\/humanracenumber09.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":207,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-review-human-race-8k\/","url_meta":{"origin":1186,"position":2},"title":"Race Review: Human Race 8K","author":"crossn81","date":"March 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Awhile back I registered for my first Minnesota race - the Human Race 8K, which is part of the USATF Series. 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