Just do it

Holy poop... That's all I have to say about the workout this morning.  We did 2x1 mile repeats on the track to start.  I did 5:23 and then 5:26.  We then did 500,300,200 three times.  I think I am still recovering from my illness and my body just felt weird.  Managed to get through it but I thought I was going to lose the granola bar I ate this morning!

Ran up to the Zoo.  There was lots of snow in the face at first so that was lame.  Beyond that though the run was pretty good.

Not sure on the exact mileage today.  We ran to Highland HS and did 6x400 followed by 6x300.  I hit the 400's at 74 and the 300's at 54.  Workout felt pretty good!  My foot was hurting a bit.

Elliptical for 50 minutes.  Managed to keep the intensity up a bit more this time.  Probably because I was listening to music so that made it much better.  :)

Just a light run before tomorrow's race.  It's a downhill 5k so it should be pretty sweet.  There should be a PR.  Let's hope so.

Good luck to REBECCA RAMPTON running the National Marathon in DC tomorrow morning!  Yay!  Miss you! 

So this race wasn't quite as fast as I expected it to be.  It was a PR for me and I did fairly well but I was hoping for sub 16.  That's okay... I still have a couple more meets to break that.  I went out at a sub 5 pace but couldn't hold it.  I hit the first mile at 5:04 which was at the top of the only hill.

After that it was smooth sailing for the most part.  Unfortunately my watch was reading in the 5:20 range which was not where I wanted to be.  I passed my fellow teammate with about a half mile to go.  The 300 meters around the track sucked and when I saw the clock hit the 16 minute mark I kinda lost my will.  I also didn't realize that my fellow teammate was kicking right behind me.  He passed me right at the line.  I didn't really care until I found out that that put him in 1st for our age group.  Had I known I would have been able to keep the lead.  Lesson learned.  He said, "Always kick David!  You never know what's on the line!"  I'll remember that.  Westminster still took 1st through third in the age group.  

I still got a PR so I am happy.  I can only improve from here :)