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Comments: Ok. So. Here's the thing. See above, where I said I wasn't going to race that? I meant it. I stayed using 8:2 run/walk the entire time, and was just going by what pace felt good. First mile was a decent warm up mile, coming in at 10:40. I kept passing and being passed by Cindy, and we'd give a celebratory ass-slap with every passing. As you do. And then. Running just got ... easy. I mean, I could feel my foot, but it wasn't painful, just sore, so up through mile 5 I was just kind of testing the waters. Miles 2-5 were in the 9:30-9:50 pace, and then I could feel my self settle into something comfortable. There was a group of marines jogging together that I stayed with for a bit ... kept their cadence, but eventually I'd pass them, and then they'd pass me on my walk breaks, and then I'd catch back up, rinse repeat. There was this MONSTER hill at mile 8 that was just brutal. I asked the marines if any of them wanted to carry 130 pounds up the hill to increase their training, but no takers. Eventually I started walking the hill and watched as the took off. The best part about this mile though? Was the downhill, and then catching them, and then passing them for good. Mile 10 clocked me in at 8:33. Wha? 8:33 WITH a two minute walk break? And I still didn't feel like I was working? Wha? It was awesome. Miles 11 and 12 also came in sub 9, and every time I saw my Garmin kick up a mile split, I couldn't believe it. As I hit mile 12, one guy who I'd been passing and being passed by for the whole race turned to me and said "C'mon now -- you're not gonna let me beat you in, are you?" Oh, HELL no I'm not. I didn't really want to be working any harder, but what can you do? I kicked it in. That last mile hurt, but as I saw the clock, I remembered that I finished Gasparilla in about 2:43 ... and I was crossing the clock at *exactly* 2:04. I'd PR'd by 40 minutes. That mile didn't hurt so much anymore. What would you do differently?: Nothing. Post race
Warm down: Medical tent for ice for my foot. Plopped myself in the bleachers, took off my shoes, iced feet. Started crying. A year ago, I almost passed out on the course of the Army 10 miler, and couldn't even do anything longer than a 6 mile training run. What the hell happened? The run I did today -- I never thought I'd do that. Never. And that it was 'easy' -- that it was fun. I can't quite put into words how amazing I feel. I don't care if I even do the MCM -- what I did today might have proved to me, finally, that I am healthy, that I am not an invalid, and that I am capable of doing whatever it is that I want to do. I have no more excuses, and it is fantastic. Oh, and then I went to Cracker Barrel with Cindy, which was even more fantastic. Event comments: Perfect weather, beautiful course. Awesome race. Last updated: 2006-09-30 12:00 AM
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Woke up at 4am to my drunk brother calling me from downstair cause he forgot his keys. Back to sleep, up again at 5:30, on the road by 6, downed a sugar free Red Bull and a cliff bar on the way.
Warmed up by jogging back and forth between car and packet pick up (maybe a 5 minute jog) Caught up with Cindy (BodyCheck) and had a great time catching up.
Not much. I was worried about my foot, which had been sore since my 18 miler last week, so I was fully intending to DNF this if I had to. Just wanted to go out and see if my foot could maintain any sort of distance, but I didn't want to take an annoying ache into injury status. So, with that mindset, I didn't really warm up, because I wasn't really going to race.