Sorry for the brief lull in the blog...I don't have an excuse, just laziness. Anyway, over the past two weekends I ran two races, a 5k and a 15k -- here's the recap for both. Race 1: Bockfest 5k, 1st place, 15:12 First race was another 5k, this one in Cincinnati as part of Bockfest weekend. I won this one (finished second last year), but more importantly improved my time from a couple weeks ago, which tells me I'm getting more fit each week. My time was a few second slower than at the same race last year, but then I was chasing the eventual winner and was also in much better racing shape (looking at my log, I had done a lot more 5k-10k-LT pace quality work at this point last year). This year, on the other hand, I ran 3 of the 3.1 miles by myself while also coming off of almost sole base training (mileage, sub-threshold runs, and hills). So what does this tell me? At the same time as last year, I'm in about the same physical shape. The difference, though, is that las...
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