Sunday, February 22, 2009
RRCA 10 Mile Challenge
The blog has been pretty quiet lately so you guys won't mind a report on a road race, right? Anyway, I headed up to Howard County this morning to run the RRCA Club Challenge (btw, it only took me 35 mins speeding on back roads to get there...) which is a very hilly and low-key race that I've run a few times in the past. This was the prescribed workout for Speed Development plus I wanted to see what kind of shape I'm in. If I'm going to race, I prefer the 10-mile or half-marathon distances anyway. Plus, I'd like to get some of my speed back and slow trail miles probably aren't going to do it. So that's why I headed out there... My plan (hope) was for 9 min miles or maybe a little better. I had to consciously let the fast people not drag me along... Carol, Katie, Cathy, Natalie, Bob... all planning on 8-8:30s. I successfully let them go and ended up running with Chris Richey who had run 17 yesterday and didn't mind slumming in the back of the pack with me! This race is VERY hilly and coupled with their typical misplaced mile markers, my splits were all over (not that I'd bore you with them anyway!). The miles clicked along until 7 when we turned into a serious headwind/snow shower which hurt the morale. Once out of that, I just hung on for the last two miles (10:40 and 7:20, wtf? I think they should be able to measure a little better than that...) and finished in 1:28:xx. So I met my goals, and am starting to feel like I'm getting alot of my fitness back. AND that predicts a 4:11 for Pittsburgh. I'd take that.. just need to get the miles in now!
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Although I didn't see you during today's race (except before the start but you and Cathy didn't recognize me), you looked great at Country Road. You are definitely back in fine form. I think CM had weird splits at the end also, like a 2 minute difference. I actually enjoyed the course - it's a nice challenge. Great job Mical!
I totally must have not recognized you because I don't remember seeing you, and I saw your name on the sign up list! Weird! I like the course too, in a weird way. I ran w/ CM the last 2 miles! The splits were wacky.
Great seeing you Mical! --- and glad the race went so well for you ... Caren & Emaad & I had a good time, and can definitely confirm (as Caren says) the fact that several of the mile markers were badly out-of-place ... ^z
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