Race Report

Friday I ran 5 miles on the treadmill. I kind of forgot I was running a race Saturday morning, but I felt really good so I went with it.

Saturday morning I met up with my teammates before the start of the race. The girl I wanted to beat is so nice! I feel like a fool for harboring such anamosity towards her when I didn't even know her, but she just gave me a bad vibe. At least I know she's nice, so now I can be nice back. Or maybe she was just trying to disarm me before the race, because it definitely seemed less important to beat her once I realized she wasn't the rotten person I thought she was.

I don't write good race reports. All you need to know is that I ran 26:42 (on my watch) for 3.5 miles. We'll pretend we don't know the course was a little short. My splits were 8:08, 7:13, 7:34, and 3:45 for the last 0.5. I was the first finisher on my team and finished a solid minute ahead of my former nemesis. Another guy on the team finished a second behind me, but he clearly let me win (I've since been told this constitutes flirting -- who knew?!). We finished 49th out of 50 teams. Uh huh, right.

So I think I'm getting in better shape. I ran 28:44 at this race in June (different course, probably accurately measured). Also, I was really sore before the race from my run on Friday, so I think if I had been smarter about things I could have run a little faster.

I'm not going to run today because we have a tough workout tomorrow. I think I'll go to the gym and lift since I didn't do that all last week.