It’s been a week since I did this event– a busy week. We were away from home for 6 days counting the trip up to the Appomattox, Virginia area and finishing with a 4-day work-related jaunt to Topsail Beach, NC. In the middle was a short stay in Beaufort with the in-laws during which our 1996 Mercury Sable showed signs of its age and necessitated a borrowed vehicle from said in-laws and some more driving back and forth for Gary and Remy while I worked. The car repairs cost about $400, but it’s probably best not to think about how much gas all that driving ran us. But this is a race report, so I’ll report on the race.
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It’s been a few months since I’ve offered up a race report or any kind of commentary on the athlete side of life, so now I’ve created A Running Rundown – a new category of post that summarizes my harrier activities for those that wonder about that stuff. I’m currently 3 1/2 weeks from Holiday Lake 50k++, my first actual ultra of the season, and, well, the preparation hasn’t been seamless. It’s time to come clean and talk about what I would have rather been doing while I was training and racing triathlons throughout the 2011 season and what I will be doing during the 2012 season. It took a little forcing myself to do swim and bike workouts. I just wanted to run. Here it is. The race report for the last triathlon for a while so you can read how it all played out. I have a track record of doing this and I plan on doing everything I can to do it again next Saturday. I’m going to a World Championship, after all. Yes, perhaps it’s an amateur World Championship, but I have the honor of racing against some fine 40+ now-amateur talent (some of whom used to be pro). This is my big race of the season. The one that I’ve sacrificed Mommy-Remy time on the weekends for. The one I’ve spent ugh-worthy amounts of money for entry fees, plane tickets and a Team USA race kit. This race, I mean business. When I’m peaking for my A event, I like to get in a good, hard long tempo run. There’s a hilly 9-10 mile route in Umstead I’ve used a lot for this, but this year I opted for this hilly, women’s half marathon in downtown Durham. I’m about five weeks out from ITU Long Course Worlds. For those who speak the race-geek lingo, this is my super A-race, big deal goal of the season. It’s the one that matters to me most. I decided to do the TrySp0rts series this year since it looked like I could do 3 of the 4 required races without any overnight stays. Actually, I could have done all four, but I really wanted to do Lake Logan and really didn’t want to do a pool swim. Unfortunately, my September event got cancelled because too few people signed up for it. Cane Creek Tri down in Waxhaw was my replacement. Here’s a short post while I continue to dally with writing up the wildly overdue special 3 year old edition of Toddler Talk. My big event in November is looming closer, so some of my training has become more specific. Oddly, this specificity for a completely on-road triathlon took me off-pavement this weekend. Continue reading Brutal Trail Weekend |
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