There was no spring weather for this year’s Azalea 10k — it was down right cold.  When I woke up, it was 38 degrees with windchill in the mid twenties.  It warmed up to around 40 by the start of the race, but it didn’t really help.  By the time it was all over I couldn’t move my thumbs which made untying and re-tying my shoe to get the chip off comical.  I didn’t really think about how important my thumbs were until I was trying to do the simplest of tasks, like breaking open a banana or tearing open the wrapper for a Clif bar.  All in all it was a pretty good event.  I did set a new PR by nearly 3 minutes, but I was way off the mark for my optimistic “under 50 minutes”.  As they say, you can’t fake a marathon — I think it applies to 10k’s too as I hadn’t put in nearly the amount of miles I needed to reach my goal.  It was a small victory none the less.

There’s another 10k in Longview in June, then I’ve got my eye on the Hottest Half at Whiterock in August and maybe a full marathon by December?  Not without putting in the work… I gotta get on it!