Today I ran a 5 miler, Gainesville Depot Run. It was a 5k, 5 mile & 10 mile race. Not my best training run because my darn toe got a cramp after mile 2. My plan was to run the entire race my doing negative splits, BUT I started out too fast because the race started downhill.
So the first mile was great, right around 10min, but I slowly started to decline during mile 2 and 3 with the cramp in my toe. Not sure why I cramped up because my shoes are my short distace run shoes and I have at least 80mi on them. I almost said "forget this" and just not finish, BUT I am better than that, lol. So, I did intervals till finish. Per my Garmin I finished right at an hour, but race results said 1 hour 5 min. I will go with my Garmin! I didn't go in with any expectations, just wanted to run and collect my bling! I got my bling and I was actually feeling good after. I ran with my trainer and my BGR sister!
NOW next weekends race is what counts for me.
Next weekend I am running the Kansas city Marathon half for time and praying I PR! The weekend after I am running the Allstate 13.1 Dallas Marathon and I'm excited to this race because I am going to complete a challenge I actually set for myeelf in 2014 early. The challenge is to run 2 halfs back to back weekends, so I am ready to get it done. After this, I will definitely send off my information for half fanatics.
So, I will be sure to Hydate, Rest up before, Eat right, carb load my way, salt sticks for sure and get a masage after my half.
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