This post is the first in a three-part series to get caught up with my running exploits after having been out of town for Thanksgiving weekend.
Thursday morning was Thanksgiving, an event that I celebrated by flying to Detroit to see the New England Patriots stage a late-game rally and beat the pants off of the Detroit Lions. Tom Brady's QB rating was perfect. I realize that this is in no way relevant to this blog, but it's a fact that I will not get sick of anytime soon.
Speaking of sick, I got sick. I caught a cold last week and ran through it on Tuesday, hoping that it was nothing more than a minor inconvenience. Unfortunately, it continued on Thursday. Just a head cold, so no reason to stop running (I would if it became a chest cold), yet not ideal. I was a bit concerned because the weather was supposed to be in the 30s and raining. Just in the 30s would be manageable, but with rain? Ick. Luckily the rain held off for the duration of the race since I would definitely put 'rainy and cold' in the Top Three of my least favorite weather conditions.
The run itself went quite well. So well that I thought I might have a new PR for 10K time, but in fact did not (boo). Probably the fact that I didn't really warm up to race pace beforehand combined with the fact that I had a cold did not help. And I brought 'performance gear' from a Florida race thinking that it was 'performance gear,' when really it just trapped heat (*why* this was distributed for a Florida race, I may never know). Plus it was a relatively congested start, so I probably didn't get a good pace for a bit.
Also, I totally missed the 5-mile marker. I was feeling pretty good through mile 4, so my plan was to crank it through mile 5 (I did not take the phone on the grounds that it might rain). Hard to do when you totally miss mile 5, even though I was pretty sure that mile 4 was awfully long. Ah well. My goal right now isn't to PR in a 10K race.....even though it sure would have been nice......
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