Crescent City Classic - First Race

Other than that, have fun and congrats on your journey. The classic is a blast. Don't forget to have a few beers along the way.

Thanks! Finished 10k in 58:19 today so I should have this

There's going to be a little more traffic than you're used to, especially in the first mile. Don't let the middle miles wear you down mentally. It gets tough running on a straightaway for that long. You'll also be able to see mile markers a long time before you actually get to them, and at the end you can see the finish but still have over a mile left to go. Don't kick it in too early or you'll hate yourself

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Did your training run have the same amount of elevation gain as the classic? Got to account for that

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it's in NOLA .

I will admit I've never done the CCC, but some things I've learned at races. Traffic sucks in the beginning, dont freak out trying to get around people to make your goal time. It's long enough to work itself out and wasting energy to side step around people will be annoying and possibly leave you rolling an ankle or something. I've been in the corral at races where my heart rate spiked higher standing there than it should have the entire race (slightly exaggerating). Pre race excitement is real. Find someone running your pace and stick to them. then make it a goal to beat them the last 2 miles. Keeps me from fading at the end. If they fall off or you feel better/worse then expected, find someone new.

That is really awesome--incredible weight loss, and it's great that you're running in addition to it. Most everyone on this board is hip to the fact that exercise is secondary to diet for weight loss, but I hate discounting it for the overall product--when you lose weight you want to do more. And when you do more, you realize how much better you feel and how much more you can do (with more pleasure) without all that excess baggage.

The community feel of these races is hard to beat--I always comment on how cool it is to have so many people together peacefully getting a natural high.

Some good advice above, about pacing and passing. My GPS showed i ran almost an extra half mile just going around people once at the Cooper River Bridge Run (10K in Charleston we try to do every year). I'll never PR in that race--way too many people, and I never seem to get there in time for my corral so i'm stuck passing strollers who sneaked up-- but it's still one of my favorite 10Ks.

have fun!

That your CCC plan TKE?

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Drinking while running isn't an art I have mastered, I get lazy when I drink beer!

10k was pretty fun. I hate running but the route was beautiful.

Ran around a 10 minute mile which isn’t bad for someone who’s probably ran 4 miles total this year lol