The race season has begun. I was instructed by my coach, (Heather
Collins, modeling the sweatshirt above) to treat this as a training run, not a
race. Since I ran the race with her I
sort of had to follow her instructions.
It was a good thing I did as the last half of this
course has a number of hills (not something we have a lot of in Illinois) and
by taking it easy for the first six miles, I was able to run the hills without
difficulty.
Actually the downhill was more challenging than the
uphill. We’ve been running hills on the treadmill so I was prepared for the
incline, but we never really practice downhill which uses a lot of different
muscles.
This is a really nice course – and it was perfect
weather – sunny and in the 40s. There
were over a thousand runners this year and it is strong field. I finished 18th in my age-group
with a time of 1 hour 52 minutes.
Looking forward to trying it again next year.
Next race:
Lifetime Tri – Tempe Arizona – April 12, 2015
