Well that sucked.
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Spring racing season is over for me after running today’s Bun Run 5k. To that in a moment, but let’s call the season a success. The goal was to get faster in the shorter distances this Spring and I did that. Four races, 3 PRs. The lone non-PR race, the Capitol 10,000, was still a [...]
I’d like to polish the Knob more often, hopefully this is a start. I still have goals, and I thought it was beneficial in the past to recount them here, so I’d like to resume that habit. It’s tiresome to be so navel-gazing all the time though, so I’d like the Knob to branch out [...]
Well what’s this? A web log, or as the kids call it these days, a b’log? Why yes, yes it is. Keeping the knob on life support, hanging on by a thread. It’s been a couple months since I last posted some gibberish about cat pictures, so how about a return to the days [...]
[...] Thursday afternoon the family made it out to Enchanted Rock. Did Jessica mention it or post any pictures? Never mind. It was a happy time, but my shinankle tendons got pretty sore on the ol’ rock. Joshua also took a pretty good tumble down the side of a boulder, but the six-year old was as tough as the rock itself and came out a little dazed, slightly scathed, but in one piece. Anyway, on Saturday I made it over to the Daisy 5K as a spectator. Looked like a tough race as most everyone was just slightly disappointed with their time, which in most cases was a few seconds slower than what they thought they’d run. But watching it made me wish I was racing, so I went home and signed up for a 5K this Saturday. There’s no course map and they say it’s an “out and back with a little hill” but I hope they’re not just being coy since it’s pretty hilly out there. Whatever, I figured I needed some race practice before the Capitol 10K. I’m fully expecting the Cap10K to be as painful as ever and thought I’d better get used to a little agony before I dive in. [...]
March 18th, 2008 at 10:43 pm[...] OK, lest we all get the wrong idea, let me say right here the race was difficult, the conditions were tough, the course was hard. But after last year’s debacle I was terrified of this race. In fact, I was more stressed out about this race than I was about the marathon in December. For a month I just kept thinking how painful it was going to be. But one good thing about all that dread is that it drives me to work hard. Fear of failure and pain is a major motivator for me. [...]
March 31st, 2008 at 3:44 pm