With school and activities ( not to mention working late) I am literally sticking miles in whereever I can. While I am not getting in as many as I want, plan has enough cushion in it that I am doing ok with the total.
So for a number of years, this is the day I go out to Madison and volunteer for IMMOO. This year, for various reasons, I did not. This makes me a bit sad, so I wanted to do something positive, so I decided to do Dylan's Run for autism. I have a niece who is severly autistic and did it for her. Doing this race was a really a last minute decision (barely made it before they closed registration) Wasn't really sure how I would do after running 20 miles yesterday. Well I did pretty well. This pace was actually pretty comfortable (although I was working pretty hard). Very pleased with results. Finish 15th overall (out of 340) and...3rd in my age group (out of 17). Second in AG was 12 seconds ahead and first in AG 20 seconds ahead.
So, it turned out to be a good decision. Helped get a bad taste out of my mouth from yesterday's run, Helped a good cause and took home some hardware. Hard to beat that.
Well I should be excited about this run, but I am not. Reason being is I always want to negative split these runs. No exceptions. Although out and back were fairly close, it was not a negative split. In addition, (and probably related to first problem) my hips and hammie felt somewhat tight on return trip and I just wasn't completely comfortable. Now I am not going to freak out about 1/2 half of one run, but I do NOT want to go back to where I was last year. I may make an appointment for a few ART sessions to nip anything in the bud.