I Hate 10Ks…

For some reason, probably because of all the duathlons I’ve ever done, I hate 10K races.  Give me 6miles or a 12K and I’ll enjoy it.  It’s something about killing yourself for 35 minutes and feeling tired for the reast of the day.  It’s such a short race but it hurts!

Anyways, today I ran my second one of the year and like the first, won.  Maybe I should switch out of this tri mess ;-).

Todays race was called the "Rattle Me Bones" which was held about 200ms away from my house.  No joke.  After I finished the race I did a quick cool down, showered, ate and dressed than walked back over.  If only all races where this convenient!  The race was a fund raiser for the Ottawa Hospital, where Amanda does her schooling.

This week was a rest week but my body wasn’t feeling it.  I’m in one of those states where "have I done enough?" or "have I done too much?".  More like the latter.  Anyways, what should have been an easy week turned into a waste of rest.

My day started pretty early as I got up for some bike intervals.  I had planned to do 60 (way back in September) but now it’s more like 30-40.  I only had time to do 30.  The morning was dark and cold as Ottawa slept.  On my return the sun was up and the race course was being set up.

I gave myself 15mins to get to the start.  It ended up being more than enough as the race was delayed awhile.  I went from being hot and ready to having to re-warm self up.   After the start I was worried my muscles would shut down because of being cold.

The race course is pretty much flat with a 400m hill at the 8K mark.  I had run this route twice this week to make sure I knew what to expect.  My recon really helped as I knew where to prepare for the hard parts (wind).

From the get go the race turned into a 3 man show.  I tagged along at the back just running my own race.  At the 5K mark it was down to two.  I still just ran my own pace and at the 6K mark I passed the leader. 

It’d be cool to say that I battled the whole way or out kicked my fellow competitors but truth is, I just ran.  Nothing special.  Didn’t push it, just tried to keep a good pace.  I actually wanted to beat 34mins at the start and maybe if I had pushed myself that could have been achieved.

So my biggest joy, besides winning a 100 bucks, is I got the win with LiveMultiSport shirt on.  The first victory of it’s young career!  I got to put the logo on display for the hundreds of spectators and thousands of racers.  Little victories!

I still got the rest of the day ahead of me, and I feel like garbage (hate you 10K!).  I’m testing out one of the ComBats that I built to see if I can hit a homerun.  Can you believe I’ve worked for 5 months building bats and I’ve never hit a ball yet!

Pictures to come!

Happy (Hittin!) Tranin!

Cliff