Back from WV and a little sore from a pretty brutal run yesterday. Drove 6 hours the night before and got up a 8:15 to start my 10-miler a whole three hours after the marathon runners started. I have been doing a lot more running and biking lately, so I wasn't the least bit nervous about this run. However, it was pretty humid to begin with, and with a large hill starting us out in the first mile, I was walking after just 3 minutes from the start line. I had planned on doing my normal 6:1 intervals, but it was so darn humid, and a pretty hilly run that I did good just to run the majority of the race.
With a little over a mile left, two of my running group members who started the marathon at 6 that morning came upon me, and swiftly passed by on their way to the finish line to barely make a sub-5 hour race. I pulled in just behind them with an official time of 2:02:34, a full 12 minutes slower than my PR race for the Papa Johns 10-miler just 2 months ago. However, as I said, the humidity and hills are what did me in for this one. It was a decent course overall - not very pretty, but I think the company that we held with 7 total "Marathon Sharks" competing in one way or another made it a really fun weekend.
In exactly one week - my second Olympic Tri in Taylorsville, KY. Planning on doing some biking and running, but really need to get in the pool again to brush up on my skills.
About Me
- Connie
- Louisville, Kentucky, United States
- After four years of long-distance running (5k, 10k, half-marathons) I got a little burnt out and decided to try my hand at triathlons. This blog is a journey into my training regime, as well as the play-by-play experiences I have had while competing in these amazingly fun events!
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