I ran a pretty solid one last night. I was entered in my 2nd 5000, and if you recall on my blog last year I didn't have a very good outing the first time. 9:00 through 3k and a 6:31 last 2k to be exact. But this time was different. I went 8:57 and hung on better with 6:08 to finish in 15:05. Of course there's a lot of work to be done if I want to sneak into some big races this year, but as a first race of the season and a sizable PB, I won't complain. Another reason not to complain is the fact that I'm in Southern California for 10 days to get some fast races in the warm weather.
I'm racing again next week - a 1500 on Friday, and an 800 on Saturday. I'm certainly looking for a couple more PB's next week, and there really won't be any excuses not to. If any of you readers have ever attended the London Runner's distance races in the past, you know what a perfect race is like. Tons of runners all looking to run fast times under the lights with no wind and perfect temperatures. That's what it was like yesterday. It's no wonder everyone comes to California every spring to run blazing fast times, it's perfect weather every single day. There were 5 heats of men's 5000 runners each with 30 runners and there was definitely no sitting and kicking going on. Just a bunch of dudes running really quick. The Seawolves had some really solid performances last night and I'm going to start putting results up on the schedule/results page as soon as I get a hold of them.
I'll post another blog after next week's races - hopefully some big times to talk about!
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