Woohoo! 4 on Friday and 2 on Saturday.
#RunEveryDay
LOL! That's how my week was supposed to look, but I did Friday's 2 earlier in the week so it was more like 4 and 4. Tomorrow should be cooler so hopefully Sunday will feel better. I'm still having a lot of 50/50 runs where some parts are pretty good and some are lousy.
Half Fanatic #9292.
Game Admin for RA Running Game 2023.
Hope the ankle's feeling better.
I had my goal half today, the Chicago Half Marathon. TLDR; I was half sick, the weather was humid, and it was pretty much a suckfest. But I PRed by 93 seconds, so who cares about all that other stuff?!
Friday night I started getting a sore throat. It was killing me all through the night, so I didn't sleep well. Woke up Saturday morning feeling crummy--throat still sore, stuffy nose, and achy I tried to take it easy (minus all the walking I did around Chicago to get my packet, etc.) and took some medicines to try to help.
I woke up this morning feeling better, but not great. It was mid-60s but humid (low 80%s I think?). Made it down to the race and waited in the longest bathroom line ever, then called out 2 ladies for being in the wrong corral (their bibs said J and L, and they were in corral E). That always makes me so angry!
I had the adrenaline flowing, went out too fast, and paid for it on the back end. My first mile was 7:20, a minute faster than my goal pace. Oooooops. I hit the 5 mile mark at a 7:59 minute pace, then the 10 mile mark at an 8:14 pace. I was miserable pretty much the entire time. But once I got to 10 miles and realized I had about 27.5 minutes to make it the final 5k to hit my goal of sub-1:50 (PR was 1:50:00), I forced myself not to walk and did what felt like a sad shuffle the last 5k. I wanted to stop and walk soooo bad, just for a few seconds. But I knew I'd be really pissed at myself if I missed a PR by, like, 20 seconds. So I shuffled on for what felt like the longest 5k ever and finished in 1:48:27, for a 93 second PR. I'm thrilled! I also placed 200th female out of 4,665--top 5%!--which I can't believe.
I'm home now after a bacon bleu cheese burger and a boilermaker (which I'd never heard of before but was delicious). A couple new blood blisters, some tired legs, and the remnants of that weird cold thing aside, I feel pretty good
I finally got a RR posted up in the RR Sticky. Got pics too if the link works.
I have managed a few short runs, but that's about it.
ekat! Holy shits, that is awesome. Congrats on the PR
Thanks I'm still a little sore, but I'm glad I did it, and really happy about the time. I still can't believe you ran on a sprained ankle! That PR is definitely yours next time.