Northwest Trail Run 10k
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Comments: It was a FUN race. I can't wait to do another one. Fortunately, I only have to wait a week to do the Mt. Si Relay! I took the camera that Roy got me for my birthday (specifically small enough so I could carry it on races) and snapped lots of pictures. Some are blurry, since I was running while snapping, but some are great. I just wanted to capture the beauty. (Obviously I am a hard core trail runner. All business here. Yup! Yesiree!) What would you do differently?: Hmmm. At this point, I wouldn't necessarily do anything differently because I'm still learning. I had a really good time, even if I was slow. I didn't hurt myself, I didn't fall, and I did NOT get lost (almost doesn't count). Post race
Warm down: I snapped a picture of Roy and kissed him, then turned to see if anyone was coming behind me (I wanted pics of my Racygirls coming out of the woods). I didn't see anyone so I walked around the park and stretched a lot. My back was really hurting and of course, my legs were tired, so I wanted to make sure to stretch WELL and cool down. Grabbed a 1/4 bagel and a few pretzels and some water, then headed back to the finish. About ten minutes after me Lisa emerged from the woods, so I snapped her picture and we laughed about the race. She snagged some food and we waited some more for Vinette and Tina. And we waited. Waited some more. I knew they weren't THAT far behind! Lisa went to her car to grab something and I heard her talking on her cell phone and saying to another lady "My friends got lost!" Uh oh! Fortunately they were just fine. They'd missed a turn and ended up back in Issaquah, but safe. That's one reason to ALWAYS carry a cell phone when you run trails! It's just WAY too easy to miss a turn. They called Lisa again a few minutes later and made arrangements to have her come find them. They did a MUCH longer race than we did! As we were driving out towards Issaquah we saw them running back towards the park and honked a few times, and made sure Lisa saw them (she did, she turned to go get them). Then we headed into Seattle to the Triathlon Expo! What limited your ability to perform faster: The fact that I'm slow. Really big hills. Other people on the trail (who gave me an excuse not to push myself too hard...although my HRM may beg to differ). Event comments: What a BLAST! I can't wait to do my next trail race! Last updated: 2007-04-14 12:00 AM
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This was my first trail race, so I was a little nervous. Fortunately I've run on Squak Mountain before, so I knew the course. I also knew my friend, Laura, would be there and I was going to meet some members of my Racygirls team; the group I'm running the Mt. Si Relay with next week. We got to the park without problem and there I found Laura talking to two other women. Lo and behold it was Tina and Vinette, two Racygirls! Small world, this trail running world is.
Eric walked us out to the start line and gave us a course review. The course would be marked with markers and flags. There would be four flags on the side of the trail indicating the next turn. If the flags were on the left, you'd turn left at the next junction. At point X you would decide if you were going to do the 10k or the half marathon. I wanted to do the half marathon, but knew I should save my legs for the 10k. We started out at 9:32 and ran around Eric's son, then into the woods!