Meh, not my best race. 1 mile warmup + winter series 10k in 36:51 + 3.5 mile cooldown with 5 x 30 second pickups (maybe a half mile?). Slept as late as I could, woke up, and legs just felt tired and stale, which wasn't a great sign. Showed up at the race pretty late, warmed up a mile, then got started. In the out portion, I settled in behind Sasha, Dennis, and James, but when Sasha and Dennis (both of whom I beat 2 weeks ago in the 5k) pulled away from James, I let them go. Hit the 5k pretty easily in 17:25, with a nice tailwind, turned around, and just immediately lost motivation when the rather large headwind hit me in the face. I passed James right after the turnaround, but never made any ground on Sasha and Dennis, and they gradually got away and I couldn't get myself to care. I felt like the wind started to settle a bit in the last mile, but I never really picked it up and just slogged it home with a 2:01 positive split. I'm not happy with this race, but I also don't care very much at all, which is probably part of why I didn't really push it. The last 3 days were too much (2 days of 10+ at sub 6:40), and last night's race was far too close to the race, so that didn't help. I'm going to probably up my mileage a bit this week and then taper for 2 weeks to be really fresh for the marathon, which, as I keep reiterating, is all I really care about at all.
PM: Ski day #31. Legs were tired!
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