MEC Race 5 10km The race didn't quite go as planned. I had a good warm-up and felt pretty good. I started out and looked down at my garmin and saw my pace at (6:55 min/mile). I thought - wow, this is going to be a long race if I don't have any legs, but maybe they will come around. I reached the 1st km mark and looked down again at my garmin and saw my running time at 3:38. I thought, that can't be right - the course must be measuring short, but it wasn't. My garmin went off at the first mile and I ran a 6:02 min/mile. oooppps! I just went out REALLY hard for a first mile of a 10k. Not smart and apparently I had more legs than I thought and apparently I can't read. I held under 6:35's for the next 2 miles and then the 2 miles after that were both well into the 7's and I managed a decent mile to finish with a 42:29. Not the race I was hoping for, but a BIG ol hug from the man at the finish line and a solid training run for the 1/2 in early Sept. Live and learn. MEC puts on great races and I was happy to participate in my 2nd one this year. Hopefully a couple more to come. Training for the 1/2 has been coming along. I've been doing some higher mileage weeks this past few weeks. After this week I will turn my focus to speed and get ready to crush some goals!
