10k Pre Race Report

Today should be an interesting evening…

In about 4.5 hrs from now I will be racing the Longest Day 10km up at UBC. It will be a nice “progress report” on my 10km run time, previous one was at the Sun Run at the end of April. Since then training has gone well, and I have biked, swam and run lots. So much in fact that my legs are constantly tired, and my recovery day barely does the trick… Today I will run on tired legs and see what my time is like.

Yesterday was my usual ½ day off, today was a hard swim in the morning (where I did 2000m with pull and paddles to save my legs) and I skipped my usual 1.5hr ride in the afternoon. I went for a 30 min jog yesterday and it was not good; form feeling off, stiff, lethargic, just not very encouraging for today. The reason was probably that I was just tired from 6 days of hard training and racing last Sunday. Anyways, yesterday was easy, and today is a new day with legs feeling a lot better.

I am off to the kitchen now to warm up some pasta, in about 2 hrs I will have a bagel with PB and a cup of delicious Mocha, and at 7pm I will flip the switch and let the fun begin =)

Facundo