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Around the Bay Race report - I say Yeh Yeh

Printer friendly version Posted on: Tuesday March 30 01:37:28 PM

I have fallen behind ib blogging, reporting, and well, I will make this report brief, just to keep things moving along.

This race is king!

I mean, rain or shine, everyone always seems to enjoy this one.

I went into the Around the Bay race this year, way under-trained (for my liking) and slightly injured although the day of the race was luckily the first one in a while where I woke up and thought, wow, I could really go for a run today.

We struggled to get to the race on time, as we usually do, but fortunately, parking wasn't such a nightmare (if you're willing to dish out a double sawbuck) and we were ready to go with enough time to get 1km in for warm up, which my legs really needed.

I bumped into RunShorts  fellow Running Coach / RR Clinic instructor / Blogger and we exchanged pleasantries both a little wary of what we were capable of. Time to focus. Congrats to her for a 3rd silver medal, given to women who run sub 2:30.

I ran a fairly conservative first 10k in 47 minutes, and then pushed a bit harder in the 2nd 10k getting there in 1:34. 1:38 and change at the half was satisfying for me after such a dismal winter---spring training. From there on in the hills roll. I kept it just under 5 minute kms and struggled a bit with pain in the left hammie up the hill and pain in the right quad down the hills.

At 27k, in 2:05 and 3k left to go, all of the hills out of sight, I thought I would be able to kick and run close to 4 min/km and get under 2:20 again, but alas I was out of juice, I barely kept in under 5 min/km and finish 2:23:30. All in all not too bad and promising for the upcoming trip to Boston.
I did not wear headphones, as per usual, but I did have a great song going through my mind the whole race. Matt Biaco's Yeh yeh...look it up. Great running tune!

It was a great outing for all of our Beaches Runners and Running Room friends. Loads of PRs and huge smiles. Love that aspect of racing. I doubt we'd be so into it if it weren't for so many friendly faces at these events.

Moving on, more races, Good Friday Road ra ces, and Beaches Spring Spring. Those reports to follow shortly.

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