So - it's been a busy few days!! Thursday of last week was a bit of a write off - I went to the pool but got a call to work at a school that started at 8:07 so I had to bail on most of the workout (only got about an hour in) and then didn't have a chance to do much else on Thursday or Friday just because of work commitments. Saturday morning I went out for a ride with my C3 teammates - ended up doing 65k in about 2.5 hours. Talk about a tough one, it was suuuuuper windy. The route we took started in Inglewood and went up through Glen Williams, into Limehouse, then to Erin (for a coffee stop) and then back to Inglewood. The route was fine, some decent, challenging hills but what was the most difficult challenge was the wind. It was absolutely insane how windy it was. There were points where it felt like the wind was going to blow me right off my bike!! But I stuck with it and got a decent ride in. Had a good group of people to ride with so that was nice, always helps to have good company!
Then Sunday I raced the Sporting Life 10k race. It was a race I've never done before. The timing of it has always been either the week before or the week after a half marathon/marathon so it's never worked out. But I decided to do it this year since Ashley is going to be volunteering at Camp Ooch this summer and the race supports the camp. With the week of training I put in, combined with the half marathon last week my expectations for the race weren't super high. I started with my sister at the back of the blue corral and figured I'd likely end up running with them. My 10k PR was set a few years ago (at the only other 10k race I've done) at 52:14. I didn't really expect to be anywhere close to that, even with the downhill course since I really wasn't rested or tapered even a little bit. I ended up feeling pretty good at the start so I left my sister and her friends and decided to see what I could do. With 27,000 people running the race it was really congested at the start and so it was a little slower then I would have liked because I had to weave in and out of people for most of the race especially at the beginning. I had to stop at the water stations because with the shear volume of people in my wave, combined with some seriously poor race etiquette there was really no other way to actually grab the water. That was fine - I wasn't seriously shooting for a big PR anyway. I ended up crossing the 5k timing matt around 27 min (26:54 technically) and realized that I had a real shot at cracking 54 minutes so I kept pushing. The last couple km hurt a bit and it was a bit of a mental victory to finish the race without stopping but as it turned out I ran the second half of the race in the exact same split as I ran the first half. Ended up with an overall time of 53:46! It's about a minute and a half over my PB but all things considered I was pretty thrilled with the result.
I ended up having the opportunity to swim Sunday night as there weren't a lot of people who came to the workout. It was good to get the swim in since I had to bail out on last Thursdays swim. My legs didn't want to fire properly when I tried to swim a little faster - but they definitely didn't hurt and really aren't hurting today either. Looks like my conditioning is starting to improve which is seriously exciting. This weekend will be tough since I'm volunteering at crossfit regionals this weekend. But I'm going to try to get a long run in earlier in the week and a long ride in on Monday of next week. We were really lucky that this past weekend we had amazing weather (FINALLY) outside of the crazy nasty winds. It's supposed to rain a lot this coming week and be cool next weekend but I'll get as much as I can in and see how it all goes! Feeling pretty positive today about how training is coming along and where I'm going from here!
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