4:33 road mile tonight...not exactly blazing, but it was fun to be a part of the excitement. Racing down Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis was pretty cool, though my legs begged to differ. Check out the USA Championship races (a.k.a. the real milers).
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High school distance coaches like myself should be required to race a mile at least once a year, just to remember what it feels like. I'm used to the long, smoldering burn of the marathon, the million pin-pricks of discomfort, which build and build into a crescendo of pain. There is no reasoning with the pain of the mile. It is an inferno in your legs, smoking out your lungs, and you can only come back to safety by slowing down and settling in...and then you've blown your race. 4:33.
TC Running Co. RV to the Superior Trail Race leaves this afternoon...looking forward to hopping on board.
Splits in trail races are measured from checkpoint-to-checkpoint. I'm trying to dig up the splits I ran last year so I can check my progress along the course. I remember that I took it out pretty easy and came back faster, using the race as a training run for the Grandma's Marathon. There's a nice report on last year's run HERE.
This year I have no reason to save myself. I'm also not in great shape, so we'll see how it all pans out. I haven't run over 16 miles since the marathon, but then again, that was less than a month ago. The endurance is still there. I hope.
I agree with your comment about coaches racing. Coaches that race are a lot less likely to complain about effort, etc from their runners.
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Hmm, no quote from last year's winner in that SHT article. What's up with that?
ReplyDeleteHope this year was just as successful.