Now that was fun! This morning I ran the Shamrock Shuffle 10K. It was absolutely beautiful weather - upper 30s, low 40s and nice sunshine.I only had 2 glitches: (1) For some reason, I had thought the race was at 11:00 am all week. Woke up this morning a little after 8 and checked the website - nope, starts at 10:00! Yikes - so I got moving out the door and just accepted the fact that I was not going to get my 4-5 mile warmup. (2) I did arm and side weights yesterday and was crazy sore this morning - oops. Although I was glad to get back at it.
Back to the race....I got the the Overture Center and ran into a bunch of running buddies right away. Boy do I love the pre-race environment. It is a big race and very well organized (cue: hat tip to Donovan). Having St. Patrick lead "Jump Around" was particularly amusing and fun.
The 10K started right on schedule and we were off! I was careful not to go out too fast, but definitely was closer to 5K pace. But soon we hit the brutal hills on Observatory Drive. I did my best not to crank too hard up them, but tried to get the most I could out of the downhills. There was a woman about 1 minute in front of me and I was following her lead. Unfortunately around mile 2.5 I saw she was slowing down, hence: I had been too. Darn, I do tend to lose my focus in the middle miles. I hit the 5K at 22:17, which was very good (for me) given the course. I meant to hit "lap" on my garmin, but at the 4 mile marker, I saw I had turned it off. Arg. So I had not idea where I was at. So I just kept on as hard as I could. The first mile up Observatory was absolutely brutal (Garmin read incline as 837 feet to 973). Ouch. But I hung on and tried to finish strong. Down the home stretch, I passed a woman who looked to be in my AG and finished hard (Garmin had me at a 6:17 pace for the last .4). Ended with a 44:29. This is 18 seconds off my PR, but I will take it.
Stats:Finish: 44:29
Overall: 48 / 625
Women: 10/322
AG (30-39): 4/114
Did a quick cool down then went to State Street Brats for a green beer with my husband and boys who were nice enough to cheer me on.
WEEK IN RECAP:
I was completely off my scheduled workouts. I was scheduled for 17 this weekend, but knew I shouldn't do 17 the day before a 10K race, and I knew working a 10K into 17 would completely suck. So I ran 15 hilly miles on Friday after work and logged a 6 mile recovery run yesterday. Total Miles: 51.
3 weeks, 6 days until Illinios.
Oh yeah, and hats off to Adeel on an excellent race in Seoul! I also hope Greg takes down Fenty and 32 mins in the 8K!
5 comments:
Sub-32, yes. Fenty, no. That $@%@#$%$@ ran a 30:12! What is this guy on? He ran 32:20 last year and I thought sub-32 would get him.
(By the way, the word verification is tardsmat and that makes me laugh. I'm going to use it on my kids. "Stop being a tardsmat and help your sister clean up!")
Nice race!
No beer afterwards?
I can't believe your marathon is 3 weeks away already! That went quick. (For me, anyway!)
Oh, yeah. Great race! What kind of self-centered tardsmat am I? I forgot to comment on YOUR race. Geez. 4th in your age group while playing supermom and lawyer? You rock just a little. Admit it.
LOL. My validation is YoDat, but I don't think you are a tardsmat, G. Cindy - YES - we did have beer! Green beer no doubt!
Nice race! Not getting in your 5-mile warmup is probably what got you the PB, I think. Well, I like to run 20 minutes about 2-3 hours before the race and 20 minutes about a half hour before, which is 5 total. Two weeks before Seoul, I ran a 10k with 8 miles before and maybe 3 after. It wasn't hard, just boring.
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