Friday, December 13, 2013

my first turkey trot!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!! 
Can I just say how happy I am its almost the weekend?  I have some fun festive plans this weekend and cant wait to get them started :)

Ok, but first things first.  I want to recap my turkey trot race that Jake and I ran on Thanksgiving.  Every year I would always tell myself I would run our local trot, but each year would come up with some excuse not to do it. So this year I finally did, and as an added bonus, Nichole had me use this race a a guage to see where my speed is at.  Not sure if thats a bonus because it was hard, and hurt.

The race started at 8:15, and I had a couple miles of warm up to get in, so Jake and I got to the start early to get that done.  There were a ton of people that showed up to race, and we saw a bunch of friends.  The race had a few distance options (1k,3k, and 5k), so there was an opportunity for anyone/everyone to do it.  Very inclusive and family friendly, which is nice for a race like this.

Jake and I lined up, and I told Jake to keep an eye on the pace, and I would just hang on.  I knew going into this that is wouldnt be a PR race - far from it, but I was at least hoping for 22-23 minutes.  Remember, paces and times are all relative, so what may be slow/fast for me, might be different for you.

Jake and I took off and I tried to distract myself by looking and smiling at everyone running/walking, all the kids and the people in turkey hats (which Jake and I totally had but forgot at home!).  I started to struggle early on ( like mile 1.5!), and my breathing was labored the whole time.  I honestly felt like I kept slowing down and couldnt speed up - I was afraid to even know my pace.  We got to the final 800m and I did my best to pick it up and at least finish strong, and crossed the line at 22:24.  So, my slowest 5k (race) time this year by far, but I was pleased to know where I'm starting from.  When I first started working with Nichole in January, I was running paces set for a 25-26 minute 5k, so all things considered, I'm ahead of where I was last time by quite a bit.

I did mention to Jake while we were running our cooldown, that even though my effort today felt the same as when I ran my PR in July, I could tell how much strength I've lost in my upper body and the ability to really push myself.  I know it will come back, but it was just crazy how noticable it was.
post-trot blurry iphone pic

All in all it was a good, day, and I did a total of 8 miles for the day.  I also plan on doing a training recap later.  Things have been going well this week and I also got my next months plan - hellooooo long runs!

Oh, and as another bonus  to racing, is that I didnt feel bad eating this giant plate that afternoon :)

YUMMM - can I eat this all the time?!

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