2005 Jamba Juices

My first road race of the season was the San Francisco Jamba Juice 5k. The week following, I ran a second 5k with the Jamba Juice theme. Ya know. Gotta pack the good stuff close together and all. My goal for the first was to beat my time from 2004 and break 21 minutes. The second's goal was to beat my time from the week prior. The results were thus: 21:05 for the San Francisco version and 20:32 for the Chase in Paso Robles. Not bad. I was happy with the second race. It didn't hurt to come in 3rd to earn a year's supply of Jamba Juice either... =)

2005 Golden Gate Park Race

I got sick after Labor Day Weekend, and this race was the following weekend, so I was not feeling very peppy, but I did it anyway. I had a primary goal and a secondary goal. The primary goal was to beat my time from last year. The other goal was to break 30 minutes. Last year, I ran 31:08. This year, even though I was wanting to quit after 1 mile, with 3 to go, I ran 30:32. Nice! My goal at regionals is to beat that time by at least a minute. Pacewise, that is going from 7:40/mile to 7:25/mile, which should be way easy. I think I can even do 7:15s, giving me a 1:30 difference at around 29 minutes. This course does tend to be sneaky-hard though, and I heard that they add another big fat log for the runners to jump over at regionals.

I'm getting faster!

Yesterday, I had an awesome workout. Please refer to this post as a reference for how awesome my workout was: crazy-nighthawk. Ok. I did 4x1600m with 1.25 laps jog between each repeat. I was supposed to do these at 10k race effort. So, I did the first one at a pace that I thought was fairly conservative. The result? 6:35. WHAT?! Holy cow! That's faster than my best 5k race pace this year, and it's even faster than my all-out mile in June. Yay! I only had three more efforts to go. The next two were both 6:43. I guess that is closer to 10k race pace, but I've never raced a 10k, so I don't really know how much slower it is than a 5k. The last 1600, I just wanted to see if I could do a 6:35 again. I was just messing around and I really shouldn't have. I should have stayed on the 10k pace, but I was too curious. It was fairly tough to run, but I accomplished it with a 6:30. =) Yippee!

On another note, the following should be added to the track etiquette list. There was a guy during one of my repeats walking in the lane I was in, in office-wear and talking on a cellphone! This boggles my mind. He wasn't paying an ounce of attention to anything that was going on around him. Dude.

Morning Weight: 138.5
Miles Today: 12
Other Exercise: None
Total Miles this Week: 12, last week was 66