RUN 2 miles in 20 mins to race
RACE 3.1 miles in 21:05, 6:47 pace 1st 40-49 AG (out of 50) and 4th OA Female (out of 219)
RUN 2.2 miles in 23 mins to home
How did the run home get longer...?
Well let's start at the beginning. I ran to the race as my planned WU and I was dragging the entire way. Had to entice myself with a cotton candy-flavored soft mint (did find those instead of the double mint bag I really wanted yesterday). When the garmin beeped 2 miles I walked the rest of the way in, not far but I realize now the answer to my question above! I'd saved two more mints for before the race started. These are yummy, like a toasted cotton candy. Wonder if there are other flavors...?
Found TV and M, TV was excited (for TV!) and I still felt lethargic. Last few days I've felt like this, and sometimes it gets me wondering if my nutrition is off, my sleep is bad, if I'm depressed...? I wonder if something is wrong or if this is just a consequence of training on the SC diet? Well I think today I proved a lot of those worries to be unfounded.
We wandered up to the start line and I recognized LR from Evolve by her hat. Chatted with her, and kept wondering what I was doing towards the front of the pack. Overall in general this looked like a chillax crowd, likely due to the host organization bringing out people who don't do this on a terribly regular basis. That's not to say there weren't a lot of runners though!
Some delay while a gate was opened, some clouds that signaled maybe some rain (would have been great, it was HOT), then we were off!! LR and one other female ahead of me, then around half mile another passed me, putting me in 4th female. This was terribly motivating! The first mile clocked as 6:45 m/m on the Garmin, I wasn't sure I could keep this up for 2 more miles but one way to find out.
To my absolute surprise, I did keep it up! 6;47's for both miles 2 and 3, even with the hills in the east end of the park. I started to come close to one of the other females but never caught her and didn't really have much kick left to even try.
TV and I both finished 4th OA and 1st in AG. LR won the female division! (And it turns out she's encountered ShawnBot in the Babler parking lot, LOL!).
For some reason I thought I would get a ride to the house with TV, not sure why I thought that. They took off to meet others for brekkie/coffee, I said goodbye to LR, then ran home. OOOOOHhhhhh that's great ultra training. The first mile I was so dead, but I felt better in the second one. Didn't let myself walk. Of course, right?
Another thing noted -- at the end of the race another racer noted that the east end of the park "looked wetter". I didn't see it, or I saw it and didn't log it. On the way home, I noted water puddles in my alley! It did rain!
I purposefully didn't look at my previous 5K PR which I thought was in 2011. It wasn't until later that I found it was 2009 and 21:50. This was a 50 second PR!!
So all my worries about being so tired and worn out... Wonder why I feel that way? Why are some of my bike commutes on dead legs, why are some of my runs so mentally flat and boring and just a drudge? Is it really just mental in the end?
After a shower and a meal, rode downtown to catch the Pridefest parade, bonus bike miles!
NUMERICS 10:13 hours, doesn't include weekday bike commutes
BIKE 106.6 miles total, as 57.6 extra and 49 miles commuting
RUN 32.5 miles
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