{"id":2499,"date":"2011-06-30T13:34:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2011-06-30T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T17:34:04","slug":"pre-race-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/30\/pre-race-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre Race Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a fit of stupidity earlier this month I registered to run my first actual race, the Kanata Canada Day 10k<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 As with most of these things as I registered I was stoked and fired up with the drive to kick some butt on my first race.\u00c2\u00a0 I still had four long weeks to get my aging body into race shape.\u00c2\u00a0 Besides, I had already started running this year and was feeling cocky about my fitness level (as measured by running alone of course).<\/p>\n

The weeks went by and I was getting some runs in, maybe not as many as I had hoped, but I will catch up and really log some serious klicks (I told myself).\u00c2\u00a0 More time passed, with runs fitfully scattered in a very irregular fashion here and there.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

So today I decided to take stock of my training (in an effort to make myself feel better about how I will do tomorrow) and it seems that I decided unconsciously to only run 10 times this year before running a real race.\u00c2\u00a0 What?\u00c2\u00a0 That can’t be right.\u00c2\u00a0 Even worse, of those 10 runs, only 4 of them even come close to 10k.\u00c2\u00a0 So, needless to say this did the exact opposite of making me feel good about tomorrow, it made me feel way worse.<\/p>\n

You can mock my feeble efforts to date here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/runkeeper.com\/user\/cvallentyne\/activity<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, that isn’t enough training.\u00c2\u00a0 No, I don’t think I will “kick butt” tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I do think the other racers will be better prepared.\u00c2\u00a0 No, I shouldn’t just be sitting here typing and drinking root beer, but it’s too late now.<\/p>\n

So there you go, a little pre-race guilt freakout for your reading pleasure.\u00c2\u00a0 I promise to report back after the race and let you know what lack of preparation gets you.<\/p>\n

On another note, I found a great running blog today:\u00c2\u00a0 Science-Based Running<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Go and check it out, it’s really good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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