Saturday, May 09, 2009
Spring ’09 Racing Results
All the races I had targeted for my Spring ’09 Racing season are over with now. The April races didn’t go as well as I had hoped, but May has been a good month.
- 4/11 Purity 10K – I sicked out of this race because I had the black plague, swine flu, or something awful that weekend.
- 4/18 Union City Civitan 5K – 20:12, 2nd overall, AG 1st (blog post)
- 4/25 Country Music Half – 1:44:45, horrible bonk! (blog post)
- 5/2 Wild Thang 9M Trail Run – 1:07:24, AG 2nd
- 5/9 Girls on the Run 5K – 19:35, AG 3rd, PR
It’s good to finish with a PR. So far this year, despite a great training season, I’ve only gotten PRs in 5K and 1Mi races. I’ve only run one 10K (Race Judicata), and it was very hilly and on a day I ran a double. For a 10K PR I was counting on the Purity 10K, which is fast and flat, but that didn’t work out due to illness. Now I’ve decided to skip the GJCC Triathlon on Memorial Day and run the Hendersonville Classic 10K instead. It’s not flat, but it’s not as hilly or a double like the Race Judicata 10K. Hopefully, I can get a new 10K PR at Hendersonville.
I’m also running the Downhill At Dawn Half Marathon in Asheville, NC on June 6th. The Nashville Striders provide race management for it, and the whole family is going to Asheville so I can run it. Hopefully, that will be a PR day too, but at least it will be a chance to redeem myself after giving up in the Country Music Half. Plus we're going to see the Biltmore Estate while we’re there, and it's totally awesome!
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