Broad Street Run - Blue Cross Blue Shield - Run10 Mile

I felt pretty good through the first few miles and the pace seemed to come pretty easily. Thought I might have an OK day. But sometime in about mile 4, I slowed down a bit even though the effort felt the same (still comfortable). And then sometime in the next mile, the effort went right from comfortable to hard. I just wasn't ready mentally or physically to handle that and I basically shut it down there.

Tried to stay steady through the back half, but was forced to walk parts of a few water stops.

Not sign up for this one. I'm pretty sure I wasn't physically recovered enough to have a solid run here. But, more importantly, I wasn't mentally prepared to put forth a full effort. I knew that 2 weeks between races was going to be cutting it very close and I ended up running Boston much harder than I had originally anticipated. Just no way for me to recover from that effort well enough--especially given the unusual heat & humidity for this race.

Walk through the finish area collecting my water & food. Then hopped on a shuttle bus to get back to the parking lots at the stadiums.


Not recovered from Boston, the heat/humidity, & not mentally prepared to race


I enjoy this race and this course. Conditions were tough today, but that's just the way it goes sometimes--nothing against the race itself, as they went to great measure to adjust (e.g., opened fire hydrants along the course). I'll run this one again, just not two weeks after a marathon PR.