Hi.

It's a short work week for me which means it's going to be kRaZy as I get 5 days worth of work crammed into 3. It's cool though because come Wednesday at 5:00 PM, I will be the ghostest with the mostest!

What's up wit cha?

Good Morning!

I got in 10.1 miles in rain and a lot of wind.  It wasn't too bad, considering.

I think it's a 2 day week for me, but I might have to work a little Wednesday.  I won't complain either way.

I hope everyone has a great day!

It's a normal five-day workweek for me.    Except I'm taking off on Wednesday because my hair needs a change.

7.65 miles today -- and I ran 5.8 of them.  I know this because I turned off auto lap, since I wanted to do a time trial of sorts and see if I could meet my prediction for my New Year's Day handicap race.  Um.  I think I overestimated how much fitness I lost, because I gave myself a three minute cushion (and change), and I just ran seven seconds off my PR.  Oops?

Of course, my foot is slightly less than thrilled with me now. 

Some of you saw on FB, but my race did not go well on Sat.  Completely my fault tho, it wasn't even a rookie mistake, I don't know what level it was on. lol

Imagine running the first half of a marathon at HM pace and what the rest of the marathon would look like after that, that's pretty much how it went down. (edit - not even the first half, more like the first 2/3 lol)

I've never crashed in a race before, so I guess when I decided to have my first crash, I'd go big.  The wheels started coming off around mile 24, which in a marathon, wouldn't have been so bad, except I had 7 more miles to go.  By mile 27 I was walking and had mentally quit.  Then I started doing the math and realized how long it would take me to walk another 4 miles, and decided that I would run, with whatever I had left, which wasn't much.  Then caught up to another guy who was walking (we had gone back and forth a couple of times over the last mile), I told him, "Me and you buddy, whatever we have left, we've got less than four miles left, we're gonna run it in".  So we did, and we started talking and distracted each other, and the pace picked back up and we both finished strong.  He actually had a pretty solid PR, so that was cool.

Had I stayed with the group that I started with, for at least the first loop, instead of stupidly pulling away, I probably would have PR'd and taken 2nd place Masters.  But I guess any day you don't die and you can learn something is still a good day.  In retrospect, I'm probably in 4:10-4:12 shape, but ended up with 4:43:21.  I have either PR'd, AG'd or even place OA in every other race I've run this year, so I guess I can handle one bad race.  Just sucks that my training went so well and then I threw it away with horrible, horrible racing.  I'll redeem myself there next year!

Hope everyone else had a great weekend!

Some of you saw on FB, but my race did not go well on Sat.  Completely my fault tho, it wasn't even a rookie mistake, I don't know what level it was on. lol

 

Imagine running the first half of a marathon at HM pace and what the rest of the marathon would look like after that, that's pretty much how it went down. (edit - not even the first half, more like the first 2/3 lol)

 

I've never crashed in a race before, so I guess when I decided to have my first crash, I'd go big.  The wheels started coming off around mile 24, which in a marathon, wouldn't have been so bad, except I had 7 more miles to go.  By mile 27 I was walking and had mentally quit.  Then I started doing the math and realized how long it would take me to walk another 4 miles, and decided that I would run, with whatever I had left, which wasn't much.  Then caught up to another guy who was walking (we had gone back and forth a couple of times over the last mile), I told him, "Me and you buddy, whatever we have left, we've got less than four miles left, we're gonna run it in".  So we did, and we started talking and distracted each other, and the pace picked back up and we both finished strong.  He actually had a pretty solid PR, so that was cool.

 

Had I stayed with the group that I started with, for at least the first loop, instead of stupidly pulling away, I probably would have PR'd and taken 2nd place Masters.  But I guess any day you don't die and you can learn something is still a good day.  In retrospect, I'm probably in 4:10-4:12 shape, but ended up with 4:43:21.  I have either PR'd, AG'd or even place OA in every other race I've run this year, so I guess I can handle one bad race.  Just sucks that my training went so well and then I threw it away with horrible, horrible racing.  I'll redeem myself there next year!

 

 

Hope everyone else had a great weekend!

You live you learn, and you finished.

Ran 11 this morning. I love being on vacation. Most people I know in real life do not train during vacation. They come back in January all bloated and start training again. I, on the other hand, train more since I have more free time.

And this is why you run faster than those people.

Sorry about your race, D2.

 

You live you learn, and you finished.

Definitely.  Part of what motivated me to stop the pity party and get back to running at mile 27, was watching people coming towards me, who still had 10-11 miles to go in the race, and they were running.  So I told myself, "Self, if they can run, then you can too!".

 

ETA since some things don't come across well in writing: I am not belittling that you had a sucky race experience.

No worries, I understood.   My suckage was fully self induced.  Training was perfect, weather was perfect, execution was horrible. lol