Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Things learned

So if you have a crummy race you need to learn from it.

Things I learned tonight;

1)Being friendly and open is good to a point. I'll talk to strangers, chit chat, whatever... made a bit of a friend at the start line when I *should have* been warming up. She's new to the city, looking for trails, looking for people to run with. Someone nearby when she says she isn't doing the race pipes up "Just join in!" so she looks at me and asks me my pace "uh, 7 minute kilometers... maybe" She decides (first politely asking) she will run with me (myself politely saying sure!).

So back to lesson learned. Be nice, but say "I'm here to run my own race..." or something to that effect.

2) When you go out too hard you can easily suffer. Even (especially?) at the shorter distances. We started out at a nice sub 6 minute pace. This is my "bringing it home pace" I know I'll pay for it later. I keep asking her to go ahead, but she doesn't want to.

KM 1 - under 6 minutes. Yup.... this will hurt.

3) When it starts to fall apart, just smile. Yeah it kinda sucks being the back of the pack, or even DFL but it ain't that bad. Smile, who cares. It's never your last run. Get it done, HTFU if you can.

4) I think I have plantar fasciitis. I think it's partly due to my stopping and starting since finishing GWN and feeling like a rock star. Hey, Jordan, you're not a rock star!! :) Icing at the moment gonna get this sorted out.

My time was around 36 minutes for a pretty hilly trail run. Onwards and upwards from here.

3 comments:

Sonia said...

Eh 36 mins on a hilly course is not bad!! =) I always start too fast... 5K or marathon doesn'T matter lol

AS for the PF... take care of it NOW!! I suffered from it for almost 8 months and it is NOT COOL!!!

Jordan said...

I read your posts about PF - I'm alternating between ice and heat, massage, stretching... felt better this morning but as soon as I started to walk in my sandals the feeling came back. Oh well :-/ I'll go see my ART and get xrays just to make sure all is cool :)

Sonia said...

Glad to be of help, I tried everything chiro, ART, physio etc. And had the most success with the shockwave therapy (it cleared it in one of my foot) but not the other. ART hurt like a motherF***er but didn't improve things much! Good luck finding smth that works for you! If you deal with it early on it shouldn,t last as long as me.