November 4th, 2009 | by Daisy | Tags:
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Wow I have a lot of blogging that I want to do but haven’t. I can’t use not having time as an excuse either because if I’m really honest I would have to tell you that recently I’ve spent entire afternoons catching up on episodes of House, Bones, CSI and NCIS on the computer. (I love technology) But we all know how I hate September and this year, with that 5th child and daycare and the whole 4 day school week thing, September spilled right on into October. So I’ve been taking every opportunity for escape.
I do need to blog about my recent race however, so here it goes.
This event day has a 5K and a half marathon. The event is on Halloween and costumes are encouraged. I entered the half because I assumed it would be good motivation to get myself back in running condition after the baby. (Yes I did keep running through my pregnancy but I slowed my pace way down and wasn’t running longer than 2-3 miles at a time.) I decided to dress as Tinkerbell. I’m a wimp about the cold however and Tinkerbell in 40-50 degrees and possible rain was making me nervous. Very long story shorten I wore a long sleeve bright green shirt and fairy wings. I also dusted off my sewing machine and made myself a little green fairy skirt.
I picked out a 3 day a week training plan and faithfully ran 1-2 days of the plan every week. Yeah. Since I ran 12 miles three weeks before the race I knew I could run the distance. The quality was questionable however. Who cares though, I was wearing fairy wings right? uh huh.
The race was windy and running up Skyliner Ranch Rd in Bend into the wind was not so fun, even with my wings on to cheer me up. At one point when the course started up another hill I seriously thought I was going to have a seizure in my butt. I actually stopped and walked a few yards, didn’t really help. The blessed downhill came eventually. I completely ignored the fact that my SI joint would be angry that I ran the downhills fast and picked-up my pace to make up for the time I lost during the seizure.
Okay that’s the boring part of the story. If you follow on Facebook you know that I got off course. I was supposed to run under the Bill Healy bridge and up on the northwest side of the river. Instead I stayed on the bridge, crossed the river and ran up Reed Market Rd. This, my friends, was the wrong side of the river. Another girl was with me on my misadventure and about the time I realized my mistake, so did she. Luckily there is a foot bridge along there that we were able to take and get back to the course.
I figure we went about a 1/3 of a mile out of our way. We talked afterwards and I found out that her goal was also to finish under 2 hours. If we had actually run 13.1 miles we might well have finished under 2 hours. My time was 2:03:30. I’m not all that impressed. I suppose next time I will actually train all the days of my training schedule. Maybe.
So you add in that my Blackberry lost the album I wanted to listen to and my half marathon playlist I programmed, and that Lyss didn’t get to run in the kid’s run because they couldn’t find the start in time, and well, the day was rather lousy. It’s a good thing I had those fairy wings on to cheer me up.
We headed right home after the race so I could go to bed because I had to work that night. So now I’m hunting for the next half to finish in under 2 hours.
