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GX, best wishes for a great trip & a warm hug from Team Mo.  Hope you get opportunities to train while you're away.  Keep us posted when you can.

Stay safe.  Stay healthy!

Uh Oh....better get MoMo!

Best of luck to R on his 1/2 marathon & to RGR on her 5k this weekend!!  You will each be awesome!  You're well prepared and focused.  Show 'em how it's done!!

When I get nervous & uptight before a race I envision my nervousness as screaming monkeys hopping on my back.  They wear little hats, like the ones in the Wizard of Oz.  I politely tell them to get off my back & get away.  Despite my pleas, a few continue hop on & around me. 

It's pretty crazy I know, but it's funny and the process eases me up a bit.

What do you all do to calm the nerves?

momo - 2009-03-26 12:46 PM

wisewilma - 2009-03-26 9:30 AM

When I get nervous & uptight before a race I envision my nervousness as screaming monkeys hopping on my back.  They wear little hats, like the ones in the Wizard of Oz.  I politely tell them to get off my back & get away.  Despite my pleas, a few continue hop on & around me. 

It's pretty crazy I know, but it's funny and the process eases me up a bit.

What do you all do to calm the nerves?

 

that's a new one for me!! haha i let the nerves and anxiousness hang around until the gun sounds... then go away.. no time to be nervous with running, swimming, or biking..

well I did nothing except ignore it but now I will deffinatly be imagining monkeys with tiny hats! It makes me smile. Hard for me to stress if I smile and laugh.

I always wondered what that strange sensation was : ). I think I deal with the stress by focusing too much on all the detail stuff....course...split times..gear..logistics..but it's all nerves. I haven't run a race in 25+ years and then only a 10k. So, I'm going for a personal record for the 1/2 mary....and so it will be!

Hi Team Mo!

Here are my results from my 5K race today...

I had a decent race, especially considering I have a bad cough\cold and the weather freaking sucked (it was pouring down rain). I placed 421st overall out of 1583, 36th out of 150 in my age group and 169th out of 1038 in my gender category. Overall, a better finish that my last race even though I was only 14 seconds faster. I had kinda hoped to break the 28 minute mark but my watch was all screwed up because of the rain and I had no idea what my pace\time was and I had to go at it all by feel. I am NOT complaining at all. The most important thing to me is that I had fun running and secondly, that I improved my time. This time, I placed in the top quarter of the field, compared to my last race when I was only in the top 3rd. YAY!

Next time, I will try to break 28 minutes. I guess my imporvements are going to be slowing from the leaps and bounds they were before I went below 30 minutes but I still have my ultimate goal of a 25 minute 5K in 2009.

Congratulations RGR!!  Fantastic!!  Thanks for letting us know.

Glad you had fun.  You really did amazing - especially considering the nasty weather, large crowd and feeling a bit sub-par - and you continue to improve.  Good for you.

In a very short time you've been able to go from running 10 minute miles to running in the 9s.  With focused interval training there's no doubt you will be in the 8s very soon.  You can do it.  You will do it.  You're awesome!

Congratulations!  What a terrific achievement!!   A new personal record!