In March I ran in three events. I ran the Sue Krenn 15k, the San Diego Half marathon and the Hot Chocolate 5k. I was feeling as if I was getting back to "normal" and hitting splits at the Sue Krennn 15K that I was more accustomed to, unlike how sloth-y I felt last year. I was feeling really good. I even clocked in a 2:14:51 for the San Diego half marathon, with in striking distance of some sort of PR, and my half marathon PR is 2:13:11 back in 2007, pre hip surgery. Then I ran the Hot Chocolate 5K/15K. It's the "fun run" where you get hot chocolate and other goodies at the end of the race, plus a really nice hoodie sweatshirt. I never checked out the course map until a couple of weeks before the event. There were hills on the map, but I live in San Diego. We're used to training on hills, really steep hills. I eat hills for breakfast, so what's another couple of hills on a "fun run" 5K course? After all, people who don't run and small children signed up for this Hot Chocolate Run. It sounds pretty harmless, right? I just thought the"fun run" 5K would be a nice little romp in between half marathons. The 5K kicked my butt and I haven't been the same since. It wasn't so much the going up hills, even though the non-runners and children had a very tough time with those, it was the steep down hills that did me in. My hips have been very tight ever since, and I've had to take a little time off and slow down. I've been attending the track on Tuesday nights for intervals, but I'm not able to speed things up when I need to. I haven't been running with Lexi, but I still take her on long trail walks, or at least get in a couple of miles walking her in the neighborhood. I still go to Rehab United once a week, and not really doing a work out, but getting worked on instead.
My next half marathon in the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll half marathon in about three weeks. It's a new course, and I was hoping I would be able to PR there, but it looks like a PR will have to wait, and that's OK. There are a lot of fall half marathons, and I have time to build back up again.
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| Tecolote Trails with Lexi |
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| Pre race at the San Diego Half Marathon. Still my favorite race. |
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| Post race Hot Chocolate 5K. Nice swag, but suck-y course. |
Finally, the running community was shaken to the core with the bombings at the Boston Marathon.
I won't go into what happened or analyze anything about it, since the news and other media has done that already. Even our coach
Paul and a few track club members were interviewed. Our track club members observed a moment of silence for those affected by the tragic events in Boston.
Song from Saturday, March 2, 2013:
Rescue Me - Aretha Franklin
PEACE
