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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Congrats! Did you have a target time you were shooting for? How'd you do relative to your expectations?
I don't usually have trouble with chafing other than once when it was really cold and I ran a race in sweats. That was not fun afterwards. This was before I bought running tights and it's the reason I bought running tights. So I can't help you on that issue.
I've been really out of shape the past few years, but I'm working my way back. I ran a 10K yesterday. I'm slowing down with age so my time wasn't thrilling (1:06:56), but it was better than I expected and I came in 2nd in my age/gender division. Granted, there were only five guys in my division, but I still came in 2nd. Being in the 60-69 age category now has really winnowed down the competition.
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I was right at my target time of 2:40 which is what I figured was about my best case scenario based on my training. I've been extremely out of shape and was challenged to do this by a couple other dads in my daughter's day care. My other goal was to beat the other dads (which I did) so I feel pretty good about the overall results despite coming in 275th in my division. This was my first race longer than a 5k and that was probably around 12 years ago.
I may need to look into running tights as well. No chafing anywhere but where i had bare skin on bare skin and it seemed to either happen as I was walking around after the race or I didn't notice when I was running.