Looping the Hen

Choke!

Ugg, ran that race today. Was hoping to break 27:00, and had good odds of that with a flat, fast course. Of course, as always, I am my own worst enemy. I typically drink infrequently, and even if I do, not much. I found 9 Amberbock bottles downstairs this morning following our D&D game last night. I'm not sure that is the good kind of 'carb-loading' runners talk about.

I ended at 28:32, which although 1:34 faster than my prior race, was simply horrible. I ran my first mile in 7:53, a very good pace (for me) that would have gotten me my time. However, I was already dead at the marker. I ran the 2nd at 9:12; usually, I am a very consistent runner, with my miles speeding up or staying close over the course of a race, so I knew I was in bad trouble. Still, a 17:05 split at the 2-mile meant I only needed to do another 9:00 mile to finish where I wanted. Considering I felt like I was going to cough up a lung (or two), I knew that wasn't going to happen, and my last mile was a pathetic 10-something. (with 2 minutes of walking)

Bad Tobias.;) I will redeem myself on Thursday! I don't care so much about beating any particular time in that one (due to heavier hill content), I just want to run a good, consistent race.

Funniest thing was I ended up top in my age group and got my picture taken (will link to it when they put it up) and won 5 bucks and everything, although I am pretty sure that is because I was the only one in my group. Go me! (The race was only 82 folks.) Still, it was catered by Panera Bread, and two asiago focaccia bagels made everything better.