Track Season: For the last thirteen years this is what running was all about but the last six months of marathon- 50k training have changed everything. I don't know what I'm doing when I put on spikes and step onto this red circle. I trip over the teeth in my shoes- what is this? This is track season!
I love track. You can hang out with your team from six in the morning until seven at night and only have to run for about nineteen minutes somewhere in there. Only sometimes is it raining, cold, or windy ( or if you're really lucky all three!)
It was raining when we left Bellingham and we passed through bits of freeway where it would pelt water bullets at us but by the time we got to Tacoma it was sunny and only slightly cold and fairly windy.
I was running the 5k. My training had been going great- a couple medium long runs a week( 14-18 miles) mixed with fast stuff like 3:37 1ks. Maybe I would finally beat my PR of 18:48 from three years ago!
Or not. I started out on pace for a great time- for the first two laps! Then for some reason it felt windier and my legs thought it was normal to run laps so slow that I had to stop calculating them in my head to continue. 19:40 was not what I wanted to run. I'm disappointed but I have a whole track season to hopefully go downhill from here. (that's a good thing!)
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