Saturday, October 30

Today I ran the first of the six 5k autumn series sponsored by Shore AC. It was rainy and the course was a mud slog most of the way at Big Brook Park.

My time of 32:34 was quite slow and the hills took a toll on my legs. Fortunately, I had reduced expectations for this event because I was using it as a training run in preparation for next Saturday’s race in the masters, national championship. I was disappointed in how poorly I performed on the hills and I will have to work on it over the next few weeks. The nagging ache in my right Quadricep was also a factor on the hills. All I can do next week is be fully recovered and run the best I can as part of the Shore AC team. Plus hope that the Boca Raton course is flat. LOL

The good news is that my legs felt fine on a short run today which means that the 5K did not have as big a toll as I had expected on my legs. I am thinking of a few tempo 1000s on Monday and a longer run on Tuesday to set up this weeks training. Three recovery days has worked in the past to help me have my best performance.

Statistics are steady and my legs are fine except for that little quadricep issue. In training, it usually goes away after about 20 minutes into a workout. I did finish the last thousand without any pain but that seems like a long time to wait. Maybe I need a better warm-up plan for Saturday.