I woke up at 5:00 today. I didn't want to so I layed in bed until the snooze went off and said, fine, give it a try. As I tried to use the restroom (unsuccessfully, yes TMI but I read a local bloggers thread about this topic and found it hilarious and may add more to that later (which I did at the bottom). http://www.shutupandrun.net/2012/05/how-to-not-crap-yourself-on-run.html) Anyhow, I got my gear on and was like, the bed is right there but closed the door so my wife wouldn't hear me moving around downstairs, closed my daughter's door after covering her up and grabbed my shoes and house key. Went outside and was like, blah. Clouds, cold (cold for me considering I haven't ran in under 70 degree weather for over 2 weeks and under 60 most other times with this warm spring/late winter we enjoyed). I started and was like, damn hiccups and spent the next 5 minutes hoping a dog would scare the crap out of me. Fortunately they went away on their own. I decided to not care how fast I was running (and usually don't for this run anyway) but I made sure I had a slower pace because my legs were not 100%, probably 90% and I kept saying, turn around and head home. After about a mile, I had warmed up and knew I would be regreeting wearing the long sleeve over the dri-fit. I had my long sleeve around my neck shortly after and was into the jog with no thought of turning home (though I was like, "I wonder if or when I'll ever cut a run I have scheduled short because I just am not feeling it." I have every run scheduled, with the assistance of my uncle, until Marathon Day in Feb 2013. I am sure the schedule will change but right now it's a great 50 week schedule to allow me to do the two 1/2 Marathons I plan before the full where my brother will be 30, myself 31 and my Uncle still running laps around us at 44.) Back to the subject, at Mile 3, I was thrilled to have my long sleeve, the wind picked up from 10-15 to 15-25 or so and the air got chilly. I hate wind, I have tried to avoid running in it at all costs, though it's impossible to avoid, but I didn't mind it too much since it showed me that it's not that big of a deal other than it will slow me down a little. And how knows what conditions the races will be and my future longer runs.
So after talking to some people and reading others accounts of this race, this race sounds like it is well organized but there are just SOOOO many people. I am a Colorado native and as my previous blogged pointed out, this is a race I've always wanted to do. Unfortunately I never had the drive to be prepared for it until this life and body transformation that began in March with by brothers marathon challenge.
I am used to big crowds with concerts, sporting events and CU football games (sad thing is more people will run this race than people that attend a great college football game in the most beautiful setting for college football, but I digress) so I am not too worried about weaving through people. Since I am in a qualifying group for my run, I am not overly concerned about this but I am sure it will happen since I plan (hope) on running 5 minutes or more faster than the group I had qualified with. It should make for a much better run in that I will be targeting people to pick off rather than being caught in the middle of the group like I was my whole 5k last week. My goal is 55 minutes. I don't wear a watch to run, so I'll just hope there will be clocks at km or Mile points. Hoping km so I can just focus on keeping around 5:50 splits.
I follow up my first Bolder Boulder by doing what a large majority of participants do, walk/jog it. I am excited to be walking it with my wife that has been walking/jogging over the past couple months. We are in one of the last groups for her walk (1hr and 50 minutes after my group starts) but that is fortunate since I will be able to finish, we'll be able to meet-up and then walk together. She will probably have fresher legs and I believe she'll surprise herself how well she'll do. She's tough, so she'll be sore at the end but I'll try to keep her going. I am looking forward to her and I have some time to walk for a couple hours alone. We love our Sophers and I love our family walks but we don't get to hang out just us 2 very often, so this will be nice.
To finish off, if you read the Shut Up + Run blog and the comments she had about running and pooping, I can totally see this as an issue. In most of my runs, I can tell after about 2 miles that there is no doubt I could go #2. It is a big concern for me when I get to 10 mile training since there is not many businesses in long stretches where I plan on running. Hopefully my body with cooperate or I'll find some nicely hidden areas. LOL.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend. Bolder Boulder update on Tuesday.
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