Sunday, August 17, 2008

Finished!


Second 5k this season is in the bag. This one was also a half marathon. There were tons of people. The half marathon sold out for entries.
I didn't sleep very well last night. I think it was because the pasta I ate last night. I asked for pesto and they gave me pesto alfredo, blek. But I ate some of it, but couldn't eat very much cause I was still worn down from parting the night before. So I asked the waiter if this was the alfredo, which I didn't want. So they gave me a whole new plate, lots of it, of the order I wanted. Anyways, couldnt sleep. I rented the movie The Departed. I stayed up till midngiht with that. And I think I only entered the lightest stage of sleep all night. It was a long night. Plus I was fretting that I wouldn't gett there in time, or my alarm wouldn't go off. But I woke up and got out in plenty of time. I took the bus to it. It was in balboa park, a pretty good run. Its pretty flat, only right after the second mile did it get a bit uphill.
I had a great soundtrack this time, that was my special running mix. I ran the route on friday, and it was kind of divided easily into half mile route changes so it was easy to pace myself. It was really humid out though. Thts why I dont like morning runs, evenings are much better.
Well, to keep off the suspension, I ran it in 29.44 by my clock. Thats 5 minutes faster than my last one. Darn good if you ask me. I think even in cross county season I probably only got down to an early 28 min, maybe late 27 but not likly. So Im doing pretty good. Its always the third mile that gets to me.
Pictures will be posted in a few days. They had photographers around the course at pretty photo op spots. But there's no way that I look any good in any of them.

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