Oak - Congrats on getting to that milestone! Huge confidence booster, I'm sure.

Urlea wow, back to back marathons. You amaze me. Nice work!


As for me, I had an amazing 10K (actually 6.4 mile) race on Sunday. I was hoping to break one hour for 6.2 miles, which would have put me at a 9:40/mile pace.

I TOTALLY blew that out of the water. I ran 58:05 for 6.4 miles, or an average pace of 9:05/mile!!! My first two miles were sub-9:00. I'm delighted beyond belief. My pace on this same course last year was 10:11/mile, so I've made big strides this past year.

My coach is delighted too. I've followed her instructions very closely since I started working with her. She's had me do lots of interval and speed work and it would seem to be paying off.

My biggest problem on Sunday was that I did not follow her instructions for how to run the race itself. She told me to go out easy, and try to negative split the last 2 miles. Oooooops. I couldn't help myself. I got carried away on the adrenalin with everyone else, and my 1st two miles were really fast. I consciously slowed down for miles 3-4, but just didn't have any "kick" left at the end to pick it up in the last mile or so. So, I got a bit chastised by my coach for that. I know that her goal is to get me to learn to pace myself in race scenarios so that I can finish my HIM strong, and not have to walk at all during the run leg. Guess I need to work on obeying orders a little more....