Lucky Laces 10k, Spring Fever 10k, Bunny Bolt 10k, and my last 20 miler before Boston
Pfitzinger's Advanced Marathon Training has me incorporate three 10k tune-up races into my training program. There are three main reasons for the tune-up races: 1) make you experience the nervous preparation for racing which helps reduce your anxiety before your goal race. 2) toughen you mentally and physically by taking you to your limit. 3) provide feedback on your current fitness level. Saint Patrick's Day has so many different races to choose from. I chose Lucky Laces 10k on March 14th because I love the course at City Park. The 10k does the same 5k loop twice, so it is a great course to do a negative split. Ihad two goals for this race; a finish time of sub 44 (My PR was 44:05) and a negative split. Whenthe gun went off, everyone started off crazy fast, as always. I told myself to just let them go. They will probably slow down and I will pass them or they were just too fast for me to keep up with, anyway. My goal was to run the first 3 miles at a 7 min/mile pace and ...