Today was a big experiment doubling on races. Woke up at 4:30am after 8 hours of sleep(yay!). had a cup of coffee, ate a clif bar, then rousted up my little one. Dropped her and two dozen doughnuts off at the Martinez household, then off to Park City.
Warm up one: 1.36 miles, very slow with two strides.
10k: total time 39:29(huge pr!!). this is two loops of the 5k, first mile has a lot of uphill, my garmin lost satellite so I didn't get it started until about 30 seconds into the race so splits are a little off but still pretty reflective--6:28(up), 6:06, 6:14, 6:32(back up), 6:21, 6:19, and then some change to the finish. I feel like I kept a pretty even effort, didn't feel too bad at the end at all! I got third and won $150!
between-races: I had about 45 minutes before the 5k. I walked to my car, drank some Gatorade, pinned on the next bib, and then basically just walked around and tried to stay loose. When it got closer to go-time I jogged 1 mile with some strides, then put music on( I never race with music) but this was an experiment and I was hoping it would distract me from fatigue.
5k: 19:39. yep, I was fatigued. I didn't feel terrible but I just couldn't seem to get into another gear, so this was basically run at the same pace as my 10k. Splits 6:15, 6:21, 6:15, 5:44 pace for the .14 to the finish. Fourth place.
cooldown: 2.67 mile jog. Good workout today! | 