My foot felt OK, not great. I decided I would do the race, and make it sort of a hard training run, and I promised myself to pull up if it felt like I was doing lasting damage to any of my injured parts, especially my foot. So I went out running around 6:35s pretty consistently, apart from the first mile which, of course, I ran a bit too fast (around 6:10). I was settled in and resigned to a mediocre race, and just trying to enjoy the environment and perfect running weather.

My foot was more or less cooperating. When I hit mile 10 I saw that I had half a chance to go under 1:25, which was a goal earlier in the year. I felt OK, so I said "What the heck?" and I picked up the pace. All I had to do was run a 19:30 5K or so. I was pretty easily on track at the mile 11 marker, but not long after my foot started to complain a lot. I backed off and finished 22 seconds short of 1:25. Ah well. Backing off was smart -- my foot is quite sore now, and I dread what it will feel like tomorrow morning, but I think it is nothing that a week of easy or no running won't fix, whereas if I had continued to push to the end I think it could have gotten ugly.

Nothing, really. This was never a particularly important race for me. Plus, I PR'd even without a full 100% effort. Don't get me wrong -- even with such an effort I probably would have only just cracked 1:24. I was definitely putting out a good effort. I've still got a ways to go before I hit my long-term goal of sub 1:20. I foresee some pool running between now and then...