A New PR

Friday afternoon at work my throat starting hurting and I felt really run down. This was not good timing with the 5K I had on Saturday morning. I went to bed around 8pm and struggled to pull myself out of it Saturday morning. My sore throat had turned into a cold. Ugh. I took some meds and headed to the race thinking I'd give it whatever I had. It was an extremely humid morning and my warm up jog had me sweating like a pig. Before the race started I really felt like it was going to be ugly. Luckily, I was wrong!! I didn't have the best race but I still managed to pull out a PR and win 3rd in my age group. I had trouble breathing and was really tired but I finished strong in 21:50, beating my previous 5K PR by 45 seconds. I'm bummed I wasn't feeling good because now I'm wondering how I could have done if I wasn't sick.

7th Female overall

25th out of 160 total runners

3rd in my age group

I'm really happy with how the race went considering I've done ZERO speed work for months because of the Ultra training. This was a good test to see where I'm at and it definitely helped boost my confidence a little regarding a BQ at Philly marathon this year. Coach Jack told me today that this 5K time equates to a 3:30-3:35 marathon time. So hopefully I do have it in me and I'm excited to try!

I'm still fighting the cold today and have spent the entire day laying around with the exception of pulling myself together long enough to get a 7 mile run in. I told Andy when I headed out that I'd be either 5 minutes or an hour...I had no idea what I would do. But once I got out there, it felt great to run nice and easy.

Here's my schedule for the week:
Mon - 4
Tues - 6 (with 6 x 50 strides)
Wed - 4
Thurs - 6
Fri - 4
Sat - 14
Sun - off