One last short race

10 very uneventful miles so far today. I'm not sure what the rest of the weekend will hold for me. Basically, I have 3 more runs that I have to jam in there, and one of them should be of the 17+ mile variety. With a 5K race sandwiched in there on Saturday night, my options are somewhat limited. It looks like longrun on Sunday, a ten mile run either later this evening or tomorrow morning and then the race on Saturday night.

It sure is a lot of juggling around for a little 3.1 mile race. But this is my race. First off, the race is about 2 blocks from my house and runs right through my neighborhood. It's kind of cool to race through on the same streets that you usually train on. Secondly, this will probably be my last short race for the year. After this one, it's all gonna be about the marathon.

Finally, two years ago, after an 8 month layoff where I think I ran a total of 30 miles, I started back at it in June. I slowly started rounding into shape and this was the first race that I ran on my comeback trail. I won the race with a time of 17:57 or so. I know. Not exactly stellar, but it was the inaugural race and there just wasn't a ton of fast guys there. Then last year, I came back and won the race again in 16:54, but it was a much tighter race. The high schoolers came out and made me work for it. Now this year, I'm ready to improve on my time from last year and try to defend my title. We'll see if it's good enough. I hope it is. This one is special.

Wooo. I made it through the whole blog entry and didn't mention the upper 90 degree heat and high humidity that we'll have to deal with tomorrow. I'm very proud of my self-restraint.

Oops.