Did the nestle 5k race this morning. Got up and did about 1 mile warm up. My plan was to "test" the calf and see where it was-not to necessarily race it hard bc I did that last week and it didn't hold up too well. Started warming up and ran into Tara..yeah!! I was excited to see her. Anyway- 1st mile was 6:25 (feeling the calf a little bit so I'm not going to push it), 2nd mile 6:40(uphill), 3rd mile 6:01 (downhill) last little bit in 35 seconds or so. Overall time 19:38-good enough for 4th overall girl. I was satisfied. I felt the leg during the run-but it wasn't nearly as bad as when I raced the 10k last week and after cooling down I could hardly feel it. Not sure about whether to do the marathon next week or not....Not sure how my fitness or leg will hold up for 26.2 miles... |