Pre-Rocky Raccoon 25K This Morning
It's 4:45 a.m. and I'm a few minutes away from getting a quick shower and off in the truck to head to Huntsville State Park for the Rocky Raccoon 25K. This will be the first big trail event that I've ever done. (I guess the ones in Flagstaff and Albuquerque were OK, but this will have over 300 runners either doing the 25K or 50K. I think from the results last year about 70% did the 25K. That's me!)
When I've run the trails up there with Ken Johnson, Jan Parks, Robert Duncan, J.C. Guzman, Len Hill and Chris Wilson from the Seven Hills Running Club, one of them likened running the trails there to almost doubling the mileage in effort. Not sure if that was a little bit of exaggeration, but they've been running them for a lot longer than me so I'm sure that they know that pretty well.
I had some things to take care of yesterday around the house and with work, but I got off to the gym late in the afternoon and kicked in an hour on the elliptical machine (5.79 miles ... a bit more than Tuesday night). As I was getting a couple of pieces of toast with peanut butter this morning and staying hydrated, I thought back this morning to last week's effort at the Huntsville Half Marathon.
I felt like I ran pretty well. What I recalled compared to all of the other half marathons that I've done is that my cardio seemed to be better the entire way through, unlike all of the others in the past. And even those the splits with the hills make it hard to gauge a consistent effort, I felt like I ran consistent the entire time. Therefore, a 2:20 where two weeks before I was at 2:31! Who knows? I think this is often an ongoing continuous lab experiment.
All right. Enough rambling. Time to run! More to report later on Saturday - plus Run The Woodlands 5K #140 results!
When I've run the trails up there with Ken Johnson, Jan Parks, Robert Duncan, J.C. Guzman, Len Hill and Chris Wilson from the Seven Hills Running Club, one of them likened running the trails there to almost doubling the mileage in effort. Not sure if that was a little bit of exaggeration, but they've been running them for a lot longer than me so I'm sure that they know that pretty well.
I had some things to take care of yesterday around the house and with work, but I got off to the gym late in the afternoon and kicked in an hour on the elliptical machine (5.79 miles ... a bit more than Tuesday night). As I was getting a couple of pieces of toast with peanut butter this morning and staying hydrated, I thought back this morning to last week's effort at the Huntsville Half Marathon.
I felt like I ran pretty well. What I recalled compared to all of the other half marathons that I've done is that my cardio seemed to be better the entire way through, unlike all of the others in the past. And even those the splits with the hills make it hard to gauge a consistent effort, I felt like I ran consistent the entire time. Therefore, a 2:20 where two weeks before I was at 2:31! Who knows? I think this is often an ongoing continuous lab experiment.
All right. Enough rambling. Time to run! More to report later on Saturday - plus Run The Woodlands 5K #140 results!
posted by WalkSports.com | 4:53 AM
2 Comments:
Good Luck Jon!
can't wait to hear about it!
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