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   sunshine
   Member

   That's where I'm headed within the hour.
   Run begins at Sunset, should be perfect weather after days and days of torrential rain.

   Anxious to get this one behind me--last required one in my local racing series!

   Posted 10 months ago #
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   kbarnett
   Key Master

   So how did it go?!

   Posted 10 months ago #
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   sunshine
   Member

   How did it go?
   It did NOT go like I thought it would, ha ha.
   THAT is one of the things I so enjoy about running--it's ALWAYS an adventure, and you can just go ahead and expect the unexpected.
   PERFECT weather.
   I was rested.
   I had not been eating (too) crazy.
   Injury free.
   I even made a deal with God that if I finished in x amount of minutes that was a sign I was SUPPOSED to do the full marathon Saturday (um, DIVINE INTERVENTION is an entirely different topic for another day!)
   So, the race began DOWNHILL--which I liked--then a little uphill--and it seemed HARD. HUH? How could that be?
   I was rested, PREPARED, had not slacked on my training.
   HARD--and in the 1st half mile I considered walking--which I haven't done in a couple of years in a 5K race. "Too hard," I told myself, "I don't have it today."
   Oh dear.
   This grandma-to-be had to do some TOUGH LOVE TRASH TALK to herself to get her rear up the hills and around the course. It was a fight with myself every step of the way. Finished in 27:42, not my best, but very respectable. PLUS, I knew the only reason I got under an HOUR was because I really REALLY fought the mental fight.
   And I think that's what my problem was with this 5K. It was my last big challenge of our series--we have a 10K trail run in a couple of weeks--but that's not the same creature.
   So, I've assigned myself new strategy: gotta work on that mental part. I let nerves get to me. They were so bad, I even (briefly) entertained the idea of not even GOING. What the??????????
   I realize this was a rinky-dink 5k, not the NYC marathon.
   Ideas on how to handle the mental aspects, regardless of the distance? Doing the half Saturday, and I'm totally relaxed, feel NO PRESSURE. How wonderful THAT IS. Now, just gotta figure out how to transfer that to our racing series .............

   Posted 10 months ago #

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