Todays blog title is "Crash is totally a bitch to his Garmin". So coming off vacation and being less than organized.. im running around this morning trying gather all my stuff to head out to the MTT Sunday run. I get almost to the 64 entrance on Gaskins and realize that I had left my Garmin back home. So being the bitch that I am.. I uturn it and haul ass back home to get the my magical watch. I get back in the car and the other Garmin says I will arrive at the stadium at 6:29. Great one minute to spare :-) My old saying is "if your not 5 minutes early then your LATE!". Not how I like to start to my runs. So I arrive at the stadium and see a group of runners turning left on Boulevard.. im like wth?? Im 1 minute early. So I hop out of the car and see Blairs pink team still getting their pep talk.. I bolt right by them all and happen to catch another group just as they are taking off. Wait a minute.. I know these guys :-) In the front of the green pack is Peter, Brad, Scott, Monolo, John D and John M.. all my black team buddies. Awesome I thought but then wait a minute.. im beat all to hell and had planned on taking it easy today.. lets just see how this pans out. Brad and Peter's plan coming off yesterdays hot run was to take it easy. Brad even told a story of Ross (a 2:50 marathoner) who yesterday said "guys its july and its hot and humid.. there is no need to run fast today." Ross ran 8:15's or so yesterday. Now thats a smart runner. So fast forward to about mile 5 and they are faster than I want to run so I decide to let them go. I basically shut it down and ran recovery pace from then onwards. Could I have continued the sub 8 pace.. sure but why do that this early and in those conditions? You sure as hell cant win the race today but you can totally ruin the race any given week by running stupid. Casey always used to tell me to "the truly good runners dont force things.. they take what the day gives them and live to run train day". 12 (8:18, 7:54, 7:51, 7:57, 8:08, 8:28, 8:33, 8:50, 9:20, 9:08, 9:16, 9:22) Miles for the week = 46.79 Crash
| 