My annual trek to Fall City for the Fall City Days 10k began last night with 5 beers and a pepperoni and sausage pizza. This inauspicious beginning kept me in the sanican for quite some time race morning.
I had no real goal for this race other than as a training stimulus. I figured I was in mid to low 38 minute shape though. I tried to maintain a steady pace and fight the mid-race slowdown, but I was running pretty much alone for 2/3 of the race which makes it difficult to push as hard as I could with someone just in front of me. My middle two miles were a little slow, but I was able to pick it up for the last two miles. There was no visible finish line clock, but I'd started my watch at the start banner matt and clicked it off at the finish. I didn't look at if for a couple seconds, and when I did it said 36:58. I didn't register that and figured my eyes were blurry and it was really 38:something. This would be almost a full minute PR from last fall with no 10k training in between. I still don't believe it and am wondering of the course was short or something!
I did a ~ 4 mile warm up run with a few accels at the end and another 1.5 or so cooldown miles afterward. I don't think this software allows multiple runs in a day though. My knees felt ok during the race, but again started aching pretty badly afterwards. | 