Registered for the Sprint Tri

Nothing says motivation like forking over the money to commit oneself to the cause. I am now registered for the 2009 Charlottesville Sprint Triathlon. In order to not make a fool of myself out there, time to get serious about the training. Only two months left.

Quick results & video!

The MJ8K folks were amazingly on the ball this year, the results are already posted. My team finished 7th out of 8 teams. Much like the triathlon song says, "won't be first, won't be last, but I'm sure I'm going to have a blast." That definitely holds true for over 3 miles I ran with David and finished strong with him. Becky also ran about 2 miles with us, but we sprinted the final part. During the time we all were running together we were bantering, having fun, and keeping those around us entertained.

My personal time was not as high as I estimated earlier. The official time was 53:55 which is a 10:53 pace. Definitely my slowest pace of any race I've ever done (of all 4 run-only races). That put my 49th out of 56th. Once again... at least I wasn't last!

This year for those of us finishing 45 minutes through 63 minutes they posted video on youtube. I'm in the red pants, grey sweatshirt, and pink bandana.

Publish Post

Martha Jefferson 8K Results

This morning was the Martha Jefferson 8K run. As my last post states, I didn't really train for it this year and I knew my time was going to suffer. That being said, my time was around 53 minutes. That is about a 10:39 pace. This is all conjecture because I didn't stop my watch until 55 minutes at which point I was just out of the shoot (walking area to hand over our number).

The good:

• It wasn't raining this year!
  
• I spent most of the race chatting and running with a friend.
• I was part of the awesome PQA team.
• The t-shirt fits better than last year's.
  

The bad:

• I had to walk multiple times because I just wasn't in good enough shape.
• It was kinda chilly out (40ish degrees).

The ugly:

• My time last year was 45:41 thus I was about 8 minutes slower this year.
• Did I mention the walking thing?

Overall, I'm glad I did it. It really felt good to cross the finish line so I'm now again motivated to start training. I still don't think I'll do the 10 miler in 3 weeks, but definitely start working towards the triathlons again.

Time to get Realistic

There comes a time when you must face reality and accept the consequences. One of my stated goals and races was to do the Cville 10 miler. I would like to do it, it just won't be this year. I haven't trained sufficiently for it so actually running it would only be setting myself up for failure and possibly injury. As it is I'm hoping to even be able to finish the Martha Jefferson 8K (~5miles). Again, I haven't trained enough. I know my time will be worse than last year and that is just the consequence of not training.