Tuesday Night Workout "Guess Your Finish Time" Holiday Run/Walk

This year for the first time, Tuesday night workout coordinators Jeff Hollister and Jeff Wehrman incorporated a holiday "Guess Your Finish Time" 5K Run/Walk into their normal Tuesday Night workout plan at the Catlin Gabel School on December 21.

All participants were stripped of watches and any friends and family in attendance were gagged. Each winner received a holiday stocking filled with thousands of dollars worth of prizes! Okay, maybe the stockings weren't worth thousands of dollars, but they certainly were filled with lots of seasonal goodies!

The top three winners were those who predicted their 5k finish time the closest. It came as no surprise that these three winners happened to be seasoned Tuesday night workout participants.

Understanding pace and routinely keeping track of lap or interval times can give you a big advantage when it comes developing a race plan or predicting performance.

Above: "Guess Your Finsh Time" Winners Gary Szolnoki, Alena Pribyl and Chuck Coats. Photo by Jeff Hollister.

The top three winners were Gary Szolnoki with a 19:30 estimated finish time and an actual finish time of 19:27, Alena Pribyl with a 29:00 estimated time and a 29:10 actual, and Chuck Coats with a 16:30 estimated finish time and an actual time of 16:39. Congratulations!

Our next Guess Your Time Run will be on March 22. The top three runners/walkers closest to their predicted time will receive Easter baskets worth thousands of dollars! (Okay, okay, so we exaggerate a little bit... )

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