Dogtown Half Marathon
had no business racing a half marathon but part of my plan to get back in shape and be able to do somewhat decent at Boston is race my way back to shape. Anyways, I'm really enjoying running the last month even though I feel like a linebacker right now.
Been hanging with the Van Beekum's and Cook's today. Picked up Amy and Ben and I drove down to the start. We got there early and so listened to some tunes before the wu. Ben and I did a easy wu through the Coral Canyon neighborhood with about a half mile of strides 10 minutes before the start. I felt rested and good.
The first 3 miles I felt good but right at the 3 mile mark you come off the dirt part of this corse into rolling hills. The downhill part is very deceiving as I didn't feel like I was even doing anything. I felt like I wasn't warmed up and when I hit these rollers I had no rhythm. So running through the rollers and along dam road was very scenic but until mile 7 I felt like I was working really hard for no reason. When I got to the 7 mile mark I finally felt good. In fact my last 6 miles felt better than my first 6. Majestic at mile 10 was a beast. 7:27 split there. I felt like was hiking. I need to do so some hill workouts after each run and gradually increase my efforts on this. I know it will help my training. The last 5k was easy MP and I felt like I could have gone 4-5 more mile today at that pace which is good.
I'll post my splits later. Overall, very enjoyable workout and glad to get some MP tempo effort in the bank. Good deposit. I've stuck to a conservative plan and really am enjoying the ride. 3up/2down
Benny V, Clyde and I played 9 holes at SouthGate. I win the match play and these guys are good golfers. So I'm pretty pumped with the golf game today.
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