That would be my Capitol Mile. Not sure why. Had the normal pre-race jitters, but come race time, I was fine. Started out too fast, but really only 6 or so seconds ahead of pace at the 1/4, which doesn't seem too bad given we were on a downhill. By the half, I was right on target. But the hill must have sucked a lot out of me. My time really stunk - 6:12. Yikes! WAY off goal. So were several of us it seems. No real explanation for it though - it hurt like crazy and I was giving it what I could.
The boys did well. James ran an 8:0x and Jake ran a 9:1x. It was really cool. James went out with Jake for the first quarter and he had a ton of energy left at the end. I ran with Jakey and he did such a great job. His goal was to be "in the 9s" and he readily did it! James goal was a PR, which he also accomplished.
Despite me having a crap race, it was so much fun - I love the Capitol Mile and watching all the heats. And I actually won 3rd in my age group - no elite runners showed up - in fact there were only 10 women in the open women's race! Crazy. But I'll take it.
So now I am on to figure out how to salvage my marathon training and have a decent race in October.....
2 comments:
Great pictures! Better luck next year on breaking 6. If you were 1:24 @ 1/4, then that's out pretty quick (5:36 pace), but of course, it's hard to tell if it was downhill.
Sorry it didn't go the way you wanted, but that is still pretty darn fast in my book! That is so great that your boys did that well and had so much fun!
Now time to re-focus on the marathon training. So do dyou have to ramp the miles back up gradually, or get right back to where you left off before your scale-back 10 days ago?
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