As I was heading over here to post on my first time running She.is.Beautiful, I saw the previous post on last year’s Turkey Trot! My final time is exactly the same!!!
So, if I thought I ran my best 10K ever at last year’s Silicon Valley Turkey Trot, I guess I did a repeat performance this past Sunday! Overall race stats are below (with She.is.Beautiful being slightly more favorable as there were only 3474 finishers):
Overall: 106/3474 (3%)
Age: 30/390 reported finishers (7.7%)
Division (10K): 107 (odd! guess there was one Male reported finisher!).
Finish: 52:03 Pace: 8:23
Training for this event was affected by the kids getting sick (Thing 1 with the flu for 1 week, Thing 2 getting sick for a day during that week) followed by a week of Tom getting the flu. After fighting it off for 2 weeks, I finally succumbed! Basically, I took almost 3 weeks off from running…on the heels of such a promising start to the new year!
Anyway, after recovering from the flu, I realized I had 6 weeks of training left before the SC Half which meant I really had to ramp up my miles…quickly. I hadn’t run more than 5 miles straight before getting sick and I’d done two 30-40 minute runs with Jenny (still sniffling and snotty), post-flu. She.is.Beautiful, luckily, fell into a reasonable, though steep, ramp-up period. I did 2 distance runs (of 7 and 9 miles) prior to She.is.Beautiful…and was good, at least, about getting my mid-week runs in as well. In total, I did 12 runs in preparation.
Given the training break due to sickness, I’m happy with my results. I didn’t feel good at the end–I mean, I was ready to be done when I was done! But, I’m glad I could sustain the pace, and there were definitely stretches where I felt really good (thank goodness for a relatively flat course!).
We’ll see how SC Half goes in a couple of weeks. The next 2 distance runs (or Sunday runs) are 11 and 6 miles. Then I’ll be doing 13 cold.