So actually made it to the race today which is a good first sign for me these days. Not without minor incident woodville rd which was the road to the race was closed so i had to do a big detour. lol no worries i knew i was going to make it plus im used to not having lot of warmup time for morning races. So warmed up for 10ish min and did 2 light strides. I wasnt supposed to go out that fast anyway I figured to use the first mile for warmup.
So started out in like 5th behind the front group of four. Slowly moved up(a little too fast obv) but felt good and even under control- up the first hill moved into second- there was one falls road guy who was speeding the downhills and walking the uphills lol so he passed after that. Then passed him going up the hill to the mile mark and moved into the lead lol. So much for a very conservative start lol but its not like i was going super fast etc. Then 3 people passed me in the second mile and it started to spread out a bit- i was in 5th again by about the 2 mile. Then did a good job of gaining on 4th caught right up to him by the monster steep hill(which was not as long as I remembered- good) but he pulled right away after that i thought i would catch back up on the flat at the top but that didnt happen lol. In the woods a guy came up and passed me with only brief resistance from me. I sort of tried to get him back on the next donwhill and gradually closed a bit on the last long hill. Then another guy was coming back in the last 400 but i didnt really push hard enough to make it close. Finished in 3126 meh which is obv slow but fine for now i suppose.
Analysis is I felt fairly strong throughout aerobically like it wasnt totally uncomfortable- the hills were obviously done at a walk pace lol because A several of the are very steep B I am totally unprepared for hills right now- my legs as ive been saying are the weak link right now they were def the thing that held me back. I was not competitive enough- I was thinking at some point when people were passing back and forth that it was fun heh and it was but i didnt really put myself into serious pain. A lot of that comes with practice def as this is the third race overall that i have done in 2012 lol. And really only the second since the one was a 21 min 5k haha(although it was painful lol).
Another thing that i really have to guard against is being too satisfied like in the woods with prob 1.5 to go i was like ok this has gone ok which prevented me from pushing as hard as i could have which has happened before. in this case not that big of a deal(although it concievably cost me two spots) but in more important future races must not be like that. Have to be greedy! Haha
So the funny part is that I thought i was 6th crossing the line(or i should have been) But it turned out that the first 3 people missed basically the last possible turn and went straight. Therefore they didnt finish where they should have I came... 3rd. Lol! No matter what happens I always finish 3rd even if im in 6th with 400m to go a minute behind 3rd in this case. haha. They were pretty cool about it the one guy was kind of annoyed but oh well.
In terms of injury/soreness i felt pretty ok my left heel was sore after- hopefully somewhat from the very uneven terrain. I wore the training shoes which was fine. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.
Oh actually did a very slow 1.5 mile wd- some discipline there for once. 7.5 for the day then not bad.
So steady run this week and 12x1:00/2:00. Id like to do the minutes at o ridge which would be on thursday i guess. That would change some things in the sched like the steady run would have to be tues which idk if i can handle. I'll see tomorrow and tuesday. If not do it wed/fri as before.
Try to hit 50 this week- one thing obv lacking is mileage. Goal for Dustin Bauer race is just to be in 17s(whatever the distance is haha).
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