05.22.08
Disappointment, atonement, and pain
Disappointment
I’ve mentioned that Jerry and I were trying to go under 30 minutes in the Komen Race for the Cure. When we lined up Saturday morning and the gun went off, we felt good. The temperature was ideal for running, the course was changed from previous years which provided for better scenery, and our legs felt strong.
And the whole first mile was stop and go.
I never saw the mile marker for mile one, but I never felt like we got going. I’d be willing to guess that we were running close to 11 minutes/mile at that time, which wasn’t going to cut it. We picked it up a little a wound our way around Goodale Park, which was very pretty. Running in the Short North is enjoyable, and I hope to be able to do it again soon.
I knew from the course flyer approximately where the mile 2 marker should have been. When I passed the general vicinity, I checked my watch and saw that we were nearly on target for just under 30 minutes. We needed to run our final mile in less than 9:30. Piece of cake.
As we turned to run south on High Street, I noticed about a quarter mile after the turn that there was a little sign on my right that said “Mile 2″. I didn’t think this could be right, but stated to Jerry, “if that sign is correct, we need to run this last 1.1 miles in 7:30.” Then we laughed, because that would not be happening. We were running together, and I was not comfortable that we could both do that. I wasn’t even sure I could do that without proper preparation.
So we kept our pace consistent, and rolled on towards the finish. The finish line banner loomed larger about 200 yards away and I looked at my watch again. 29:30 and counting. I turned around and told Jerry we had 30 seconds, thinking it might be possible. The next thing I know, he’s blowing past me to sprint to the line. I pulled in right behind him, and we cruised to the finishing chute. I clicked the ‘Stop’ button on my watch as we crossed the line, and looked down to see the results.
We walked wordlessly through the finishing chute, handed our bib information to the volunteers, and headed on to get our water and bananas.
Without turning around, Jerry said, “we didn’t meet our goal did we?”
“Missed by eight seconds,” was my reply.
We talked about thing for a few minutes, ran through the meaningless excuses, and decided that we would try again in a month or two. The Race for the Cure is a wonderful event, but very difficult to run a great time because of the large crowds. The fact that we made a decision to stay together made it even tougher to weave. But we’re not using these as excuses, we’re going to race a 5k in July and see what we’re made of. I can’t wait.
Atonement
I’m perfectly fine with the statement that I was not incredibly upset at not meeting our goal last Saturday. But I’m also not the type to let things go unchecked. I had Sunday scheduled for three miles, presumably to recover from the race the day before. As the Saturday race was pretty easy, I decided to go all out on Sunday and go for broke in a hard 5k.
I went out hard, kept it up through the second mile, and knifed my way through a vicious headwind in the last half mile. The only thing that slowed me even the slightest was the nausea I was experiencing with about a quarter mile to go. I was suspicious that if I kept up the pace I was running that one of my neighbors would have some projectile vomit in their front yard. I didn’t feel like ejecting my breakfast, so I slowed up just enough to keep things where they belong.
I crossed the finish line sucking wind, and fell into the grass in my front yard. I looked at my watch. It stared back at me, 23:23. Damn, that felt good.
Pain
I went out for an easy five on Monday night, and it was quickly apparent that all was not well in my right leg. My IT band had been slightly aggravating me the last week or so, but proper warm-up and cool-down procedures and stretching had kept things from getting too bad. What started as an uncomfortable run quickly progressed to painful, and for the first time in my life I not only cut a run short, I quit running and walked home. It was the smart thing to do, I’m sure, but it took a big bit of pride swallowing to switch from that painful hobble to a walk. A five mile run turned into a one mile run, and I rested the rest of the night (and got a very painful massage on my legs as well).
Tuesday I felt like I was 90% healthy, but decided that a day off here is better than a week or more off later. More ice and stretching were done, and by yesterday I felt back up to par.
Last night was a softball game, as is tonight. Tomorrow I’m scheduled at Equivita, so the earliest I’ll get back on the road will be tomorrow night or Saturday morning.
But I’m not worried. I’d rather get this stuff fixed now, than arrive in Nashville six months from now, hobbling around broken.
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