Post Race Impression

The Tom King went down this morning, and I ended up cutting about 9 minutes off last year's time! As of this writing, the official times haven't posted, but my time was 2:10 and a few ticks.

This was not accomplished without some pain. Probably, I trained fewer miles and less carefully for this year's run - my fifth time - than for any other so far.

I felt pretty tuckered at moments in the miles between marker 11 and the finish, and both hips and both feet are feeling their age and more. I ran through the knee pain, and never did experience much of the discomfort in calves and ankles that bugged me in training. I tried running past a couple of little aches in my feet, but they waited in the bushes for me as I hit 11, and jumped back bigger than before. I really noticed the change at this distance, as a whole list of little aches started up.

Afterward, the effects of overexertion were evident quickly, as my feet and left calf stiffened and cramped. In the men's room to change to dry clothes about 20 minutes after the finish, I was startled by a cramp in my pectoral muscle at the right shoulder when I leaned over to pull up a sock. My system was definitely overtaxed today.

Kid Kate ran away from me just as we reached Mile 1; saw her again at the turnaround, briefly. She finished at about 2:07, and vows never to do this again -- boring and painful is how she described it.


That's it for now -- I'll be back on the road by Tuesday for 3 or 4 miles, and we'll see how we're feeling.