This week I am trying to get myself back into race mode for an upcoming 10k race this Saturday in La Crosse. The race is called the La Crosse Chileda Classic and it is one that my family enjoys doing every year. I haven't participated in it the last couple of years because it was just getting too difficult for me with me what working til 11pm at the tv station, driving two hours and getting to my parents farm in Coon Valley at 1am, and then getting up before 6am to head to La Crosse for the start. That doesn't really make for an ideal race. You kind of feel like you ran a race even before the gun went off. This year, though, I was given Friday, the 4th of July off, so it makes it a lot easier to head up to the Coulee Region to run the Chileda Classic. The trick this year, though, will be trying to get my legs prepared for doing a race not two weeks after running Grandma's Marathon in Duluth. My brother Pete did that same double a few years ago, and he said that he felt pretty wiped out after running Grandma's and then doing Chileda's 10k a couple weeks later. I think my legs, and body overall, should be fine, though. I have no residual soreness that you sometimes get after running a long distance race, and my legs seem to be responding well to the runs I've been doing since the marathon. Yesterdays 7 miler at 7:07 pace is a testament to that. Because of that, I feel pretty confident that I could run a strong race on Saturday morning. I am hopeful that I might be able to break the 40 minute barrier for the first time in a 10k. We will see, though. As I said a few days ago in my post about Grandma's Marathon... there are no gaurantees.
Today's workout: 3.1 miles > 23:10 > 7:29 pace
Miles this week: 3.1
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good luck with your marathon. I am looking for people interesting in bloging about wimbledon and other grand slams
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