Saturday, May 8, 2010

Indianapolis Mini-Marathon

Ran 13.1 today in 1:35

The Mini is a nice run. It's a community event - the largest half-marathon in the country. I feel it to be more of a patriotic duty to run this race than anything else. There are helicopters hovering above, they sing the National anthem, sign the State song -something about on the banks of the Wabash?, etc. I'm always happy to just be there for another year in the midst of 30,000 runners. Thankful that my body can still go through the motions. This year it was cold, with a strong western wind. I was freezing at the start. FREEZING. I couldn't break free of the crowd for the longest time it seemed - but once I found my stride I felt pretty strong today. Normally I finish and have double vision, so unbalanced I step on my opposing calf when walking through the family reunion area , and have no use of my legs for hours....if not days. Today I was so cold I jogged to my car. I just finished mowing the yard. I'm feeling half-way deceit. Amazing what training can do.

This was a good gauge of my fitness level. Usually the problems arise with either a muscle cramp or some kind of cardio pain - lung, side-stitch. I felt great the whole time. I think I hit some 6:30 miles on the way back from the Indy 500 track. My mantra worked yet again: "All systems go".

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