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Who can work when you're reminded of your weekend?
Tonight I shuffled through three 10 min/miles. I'm still sore but I should feel better tomorrow. I would like to go after my 5K PR on Sunday at the Cherry Blossom race. My 5K PR is from 2004-21:42. My job this week is to recover. Here that muscles??? RECOVER!!!
Look, I'm on a podium! This is my first time on a legit podium.
I was the 2nd woman in the 5 mile trail run.
Look, so is C! She was 4th in her AG in the 10 mile trail run. [Look how nice the podiums look when they are all filled out b/c the runners haven't left!]
Her husband (not a blog follower so I won't plaster his face all over this shiny blog!) was 3rd in his AG in the 10-miler. We cleaned up!
Here is our glassware. Also exciting was that K (the husband) won an ipod shuffle. The whole race and post-race awards/prizes were pretty sweet. Awards 5 deep? Ipods and a $100 bill giveaway and more??
C told me about this trail race and THANK YOU SO MUCH. The race was sic. There were stream crossings (nowhere to go but through...everyone had wet feet). There were danger signs at 5-6 locations. Crazy mud including steep muddy climbs and descents.
The race is composed of either 1 or 2 loops of a 5 mile course. I started at a brisk pace (no warm-up except for a few short jogs to make sure my shoelaces were tied an appropriate tightness :) and immediately started picking off women. The problem was that I had no idea who was in the 5 mile and 10 mile races respectively. I basically chased every woman, assuming that if they were ahead of me they were 5 milers. Um, no. Among other 10 milers ahead of me, I killed myself chasing down one woman and passed her with 50 yards to go-and she started cheering me on just as she veered to the left to do another loop. I thought she was being a bit enthusiastic about getting passed near the end!! It's safe to say there was some talent out there!
The course was just really really fun while also kicking my butt. I'm glad the 5 and 10 mile fields were mixed so there were more women on the course. I never get particularly motivated chasing down men so this pulled me to a painful and good time (46:XX). When I finished they told me I was the second woman (It looks like the first place woman beat me by about 4 minutes. I'd just like to reiterate...4 minutes. Whole minutes.) and asked if I was okay (I was really hurting and it showed). I said I was fine but could the volunteer please pull the bottom of my number off for me b/c I really could not deal w/ it at that moment!
I stretched for a bit, cheered for a bit, got some water, and did what I'm calling a mile cool-down (not really a mile). I wanted to run 6 miles today as part of my training for my 10 mile race so I shuffled along for 8-9 minutes or so and called it a day. I grabbed my camera and took some pics of K and C finishing their 10 miles. We were supposed to have thunderstorms but didn't and it was just a beautiful day to be outside.
Here is C and I with our bling.
A final humorous note was that the announcer didn't quite think my sign-up info was correct and that I was really from Massachusetts. As I was getting my award he said my town and then said...in...um, Maryland? Nope, Massachusetts baby!
These are my going out people...NOTE ALL OF THE SNEAKERS!!!!!! (ignore B's classiness). We were at a bar. In sneakers. There was dancing. And then my brother showed up. I don't have a picture but I guarantee he had sneakers on too. His fiancee probably did as well. That's how my family rolls to be honest. My sister's foot is one of the sneaker clad ones above. Seriously, sneakers are a must for city living and going out. Who can trek around and then stand around in shoes?!?!
Can you guess which foot is mine?
Other fun notes for the weekend are that I introduced B to the FOAM ROLLER. I hope she doesn't mind if I mention she needs to have knee surgery. (A softball catcher growing up, a skier, a runner...yeah, she is getting surgery soon). We think she is walking funny and compensating and her IT band is SOOO tight. She gave it some foam roller love. I'll just say she didn't love it as much as when I introduced my sister to the bike trainer. It was a bit painful (which just means she's doing it right!). She hates me.
Also, this dude in the gym was totally running. Faster than me. It was so cool to have running company.
MEDALS! I got an e-mail from my Boston building manager saying I have a UPS package. Um...problem since I am not there...I placed a call to find out who it was from and it's from the stair climbing race organizers. It must be my AG award. It's cool they sent it, but it would have been WAY OKAY if they didn't so they could have put more money towards, ya know, lung research. But it's a little something something to have waiting for me when I get home.
Apparently purple ties are SO in. Everyone is wearing them on the Hill-including the youngest Congressman at 27 years young (also voted Hottest Freshman Congressman-I saw him live in purple (shirt and tie)). I also overheard one of the older Senator's running regimens today while he was talking to his staff as he waited for the Senator only elevator. (I was waiting with the masses).
