school week one and IMCdA training week two is in the books...and it was a good one...school is going to be a lot of fun this semester...i hooked up with three other girls in my nutrition education class that all are interested in sports nutrition and we are trying to do our presentation for Rogue Running...this friends is very exciting to be able to do a presentation that is actually meaningful for my future as a dietitian...very fun...
training was good as well...had my first spin that really knocked me on my butt...in a good way...swam a lot...and ran the 3M half marathon...i really had no goals for this race...i have not been doing any kind of run training since early october...and with the healing of my sprained foot (we are at week 11) i have not been pushing it to do three runs a week...the past two weeks were one hill/track workout and one long (sort of) run at a very conversational pace...
so not much expectation here for 3m...and really i wasn't even sure i could beat my time from 2 years ago....but i went out and ran it...and had fun...it was tough with the start being delayed almost an hour due to high winds knocking down road blocks...and shivering in the starting area with 5,000 other people...but was happy to run once it started...i found the 1.50 pace group very easily...and just hung out there...the pace was comfortably hard at points and comfortable at some points...and well hard at others :D ...overall it was a good race...as it was not my A race i didn't leave it all on the road but i didn't slack either...was surprised every time i saw someone i knew cheering out on the course...yeah thanks!
so i stuck with that group and i figured i would pick it up in the last 5k if i was feeling super great...i was not feeling super great but picked it up none the less...at mile 10 i had started to feel a blister developing on the ball of my foot...i could tell it was not going to be small...and for some reason i was really very HOT though most of the run...but we hit duval and i wanted to run faster...so i did...
saw a huge group of t3 peeps right at the turn to campus...yeah!...and was able to pass the 1.50 pace group...pushed it down the last 100 meters...and finished in 1.49.23 (8.21 pace) not bad i thought for not really running since october...i had to check my time from when i was marathon training two years ago and it was 1.48.58...i'm happy even though there was no pr...hitting with in 25 seconds of that time made me happy...
now the blister is huge and makes me walk funny...let's hope that heals fast
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