1 min readIt was a two-race weekend for NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth. After driving in the 170-mile NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race on Saturday night—Johnson, 40, finished 12th, Kenseth, 44, was 18th—both woke up early on Sunday morning to run the Jimmie Johnson Foundation 5K.
There, Johnson ran an impressive 20:49 wearing bib No. 48 and finished 33rd overall. Kenseth was 44th in 21:27. He wore bib No. 20, naturally.
Olympian Anthony Famiglietti showed up—at the 5K, not the speedway—and won in 14:52. For his efforts, he received $0. The winner of the other race, Joey Logano, took home $1 million.
There were a couple other key differences between the two events:
Saturday’s race was 113 laps around a 1.5-mile track. Sunday’s race was point-to-point with plenty of turns.
Jimmie Johnson’s fastest 1.5-mile lap in practice was 28.2 seconds, an average of 191 miles per hour. At the 6:42 per mile pace he averaged for the 5K, that same lap would have taken him just over 10 minutes.
Runners of the 5K hit three main hills while drivers at the speedway had a perfectly flat elevation chart.
Family members were encouraged to participate in the running event, but not the driving one.
Robert is the former Executive Producer for Runner’s World Online. He has run over 60 marathons with a personal best of 2:52:11.
