The results are posted from the Turkey Hill Classic 10K. They have me 10 seconds slower than I had myself. My official PR will be 52:12.
I know it sounds like bad sportsmanship to complain about a new personal record. But the truth is that it’s only a personal record because this was my first 10K. And 52:12 is a bad time. I am in better shape than that, I just need to refocus my efforts on staying injury free and get back out there.
I ran twice last week, and both times made my calf worse. Before I really do something stupid and tear the muscle, I am going to take a full week off. I went for a long walk yesterday and even that hurt.
I am going to go to the gym a few times this week and see if the bike hurts me. Bleh. I want to go running.
I installed the latest release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 today. I was lucky enough to have gotten a hold of a w1100z Sun Workstation donated by a buddy.
The install didn’t go as smooth as I would have hoped. Initially the clock was not set properly after having been turned off for an extended period. As a result the desktop would never load. I was able to kill the x session, and in gdm switch to failsafe-gnome, and set the clock. I completed the installation, but when I rebooted I was dropped at a grub prompt, and not the grub menu. I decided to run through the install one more time to make sure I hadn’t missed something. When I booted the live cd this time, with the clock not out of sync, it took me right to the gnome session, and I completed the install. Upon this second reboot, grub came up as expected.
Overall I was a little disappointed. I am happy to have the hardware, and now a functioning OS, but this was Sun hardware (albeit E.O.L. hardware). This should have just worked.
At any rate, there are lots of exciting things going on with OpenSolaris, and I recommend you take a look.
On Sunday, when I woke up after the race on Saturday, my calf was destroyed. It has hurt pretty consistently since then. It has finally started to ease up tonight, and I am going to try to run tomorrow. Nothing crazy, nice and slow, maybe a 5′er.
On another note. I have been a little preoccupied lately with thinking about speed. And also realizing that speed in general is sucking the fun out of running. As a result, I am recommitting myself to running more, but longer and more often, not faster. Speed will come as it always does, running more is what is important.
This morning I got up early and traveled to Lancaster to run the Turky Hill Country Classic 10K.
I got there about 20 minutes before the start. I ran up to the registration table, grabbed my bag and pinned my number to my chest and glanced into the bag. For some odd reason, there was no t-shirt, in it’s place was a long narrow green towel which was a billboard for all the sponsors. In addition to a tiny towel, I got two coupons and a cow key chain…
The race was well put together, and the volunteers were great.
Personally I turned in a sub-par performance. I was shooting for 8 minute miles across the board. I started off OK, and was around 8 for the first 3 miles. The 4th mile turned out to be a lot tougher than I had bargained for. By the time I recovered during the 5th mile I had borrowed some energy from the endurance bank and was paying back the interest.
I have to say, this is the first race since I started racing last year where I was disappointed in my performance. Usually I have felt pretty good about things after a hard fought race. Not this time.
1 Mile Splits: 7:58, 8:05, 8:09, 9:19, 8:47, 8:17 (and the last .19 in 1:25)
Some stats:
Distance: 6.19 Miles
Time: 52:01 (pace: 8:23)
Average Heart Rate: 176
Calories Burned: 883