Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Day off, failed run, race

Took another day off.

Tried to run on Friday, made it about 5 steps, too much pain, stopped.

Saturday I got out of work at 7am, had some food, headed over to Sea of Blue 5-k.

Warmed up 5-k.  Leg was hurting pretty good.  As long as I kept moving it was manageable.

Goal for 5-k was to run 5:30 pace.  First mile was downhill so I ran 5:15.  Second mile rolled and I hit 5:29.

Last mile starts uphill for first 3/4 of it.  All I needed to do was be at 5:45, ran 5:42.

Last .10 was closer to .16 and took me 48 seconds, so a sub 17:00 effort turned into 17:15.

Didn't cooldown, just walked around a bit. 

Plan is to try and get leg better this week, race another 5-k next week and another one week after that.

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