After nearly three weeks of backing off training (mostly to heal up the achilles injury from July 4th) I gave another shot at a 5k race today at Lancaster, to make sure the PT has taken and my achilles is up to speed.
Much like Lovell last weekend, I felt terrible right from the start, and my time was a very similar 18:22. The only things I can say that are positive are that I wasn't tired after the race, and I don't have a lot of pain. I took 5th overall, and managed a mug for the age division award.
Nick had a terrible race, finishing slightly behind me after taking off to the lead and then feeling like his arms were made of lead. He still won his age division by over six minutes, and he gets a week off now before X-C season training starts for real.
Melissa ran OK with a 24:17 time and an age division victory (by a few seconds). Her training is "run a few miles every other day" as she is still too young in my opinion to start serious training. She will have plenty of time for that later!
I leave for nationals next week, and hopefully I can make it out of the trials at 800m, but my focus is to just do the best that I can, given the injury which has hampered my last 3 weeks of training. I had high hopes going into the season, but after missing all three of the practice meets due to injury, I have resigned myself to looking forward to next season to set my personal bests.
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Darin
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Races!
After another weak performance at the Tuesday Whitaker Woods races (probably because it was so hot and muggy) Nick, Melissa and I took to the track Thursday for a 200m interval workout. Nick and I hit 29-31 and Melissa was solid in the high 30-low 40 range.
We started July with the MIT track meet, where Nick hit 4:43, I ran 4:44, and Melissa 6:08 for 1500m. Nick jogged the 3k to a victory with 11:18, and Melissa and I ran a very hot and windy 800m in 2:17 and 3:18, respectively. The times for most everyone were poor because of the heat.
July 3rd was my big race of the week; the Manchester Mile. I ran 4:34.8 with Nick closing at the finish at 4:39.9. Sure it was downhill, but those are good times regardless. I thought the finish was slightly more downhill, but it was rather flat, so I didn't have quite enough left for a strong finish. I was hoping to break 4:30, but maybe next year! We both won our respective age divisions, and we were both in the top 10 overall (although not even close to the top 4, 3 of whom ran sub 4!)
We all did Bridgton's Four on the Fourth. Nick and I had dead legs, after the mile race the night before. Nick still pulled off a 23:25; his age division was stacked, with race winner Silas Eastman, and another younster in the top 5 in the mid 22's (which Nick could probably do with a day of rest in between races). Melissa ran a PR 31:34 for 3rd in her division (she got heavily boxed in at the start, but still did well), and Alex ran a PR at 34:04, after 6 weeks of not running. My time was 24:50, but somehow I managed to win my age division anyway. Unfortunately, I may have tweaked my achilles, which started bothering me after a 10.6 mile run over this weekend. That will be inconvenient, as I was hoping to bump up the mileage and do more track work to get ready for Masters Nationals in August; instead I will be babying the injury and trying to maintain fitness.
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Darin
We started July with the MIT track meet, where Nick hit 4:43, I ran 4:44, and Melissa 6:08 for 1500m. Nick jogged the 3k to a victory with 11:18, and Melissa and I ran a very hot and windy 800m in 2:17 and 3:18, respectively. The times for most everyone were poor because of the heat.
July 3rd was my big race of the week; the Manchester Mile. I ran 4:34.8 with Nick closing at the finish at 4:39.9. Sure it was downhill, but those are good times regardless. I thought the finish was slightly more downhill, but it was rather flat, so I didn't have quite enough left for a strong finish. I was hoping to break 4:30, but maybe next year! We both won our respective age divisions, and we were both in the top 10 overall (although not even close to the top 4, 3 of whom ran sub 4!)
We all did Bridgton's Four on the Fourth. Nick and I had dead legs, after the mile race the night before. Nick still pulled off a 23:25; his age division was stacked, with race winner Silas Eastman, and another younster in the top 5 in the mid 22's (which Nick could probably do with a day of rest in between races). Melissa ran a PR 31:34 for 3rd in her division (she got heavily boxed in at the start, but still did well), and Alex ran a PR at 34:04, after 6 weeks of not running. My time was 24:50, but somehow I managed to win my age division anyway. Unfortunately, I may have tweaked my achilles, which started bothering me after a 10.6 mile run over this weekend. That will be inconvenient, as I was hoping to bump up the mileage and do more track work to get ready for Masters Nationals in August; instead I will be babying the injury and trying to maintain fitness.
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Darin
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