5k race today

I know I was tired this am (just read last posting about my horrendously tiring work week), but this 5k was HARD!  We ran about 2 miles slowly to the race site as warm up.  Good thing I did this since my shins were killing me on this warm up.  Not really sure what that was all about.  Anyways, we got to the race site with about 10 min to spare-perfect timing.  The race started and off I went to run 3.1 miles.  It’s only 3.1 miles I kept saying-doesn’t matter that your legs feel like lead and all you want to do is lay down and go to sleep.

I finished in 24:44, about 30sec/mile worse than my last 5k of the sprint distance triathlon.  But, I am racing the swim and bike of a half iron tomorrow, so I really need to be careful and not tire myself out too much.

Off to sleep early tonight.  I’m writing this from the hotel room I got so I didn’t have to get up at 3am tomorrow morning.  Thank goodness Krista came with me.  Let’s just say it’s not the most upscale hotel 

I’ll post tomorrow about the 1/2 iron swim/bike.  I’m not expecting stellar results, but would like to have a decent swim and bike.