Run 4 Fun

I think you can't beat a 10K with $15 entry fee (no ridiculous $2-4 service fee on top of race fee), a long sleeve cotton shirt, 1.5 bottle of red wine the night before and 1.5 hours of sleep going into the race. Top it with terribly humid, almost 75 degrees temperature and it is a perfect recipe to have fun and don't run for time race. If weather predictions were good and I was serious, I would have loved to break 40 minutes again but I was in no mood to spoil the fun yesterday. The race started pretty normal and first 2 minutes or so were spend weaving around people to get in front. On a normal day I would be little pissed but Bob Brown said something which made total sense. He said they have paid the same money as you and to hell with race etiquette in a Turkey Trot. Who are we? I am not even middle of pack runner from racing standards so I can't complain. I saw Simon Brabo running with Caroline Burum ahead of me and I thought about reeling them in next mile or so. Caro

Many thanks to Lisa Foronda for picking my bib and sprinkling good luck on it :) I wanted to break 1:46 in 25K as mentioned in my previous blog post. I had a good week leading to the race except a few glitches. I usually like to do one quality workout in the week leading to the race. On Tuesday evening I wanted to do a hard 6-7 mile tempo run at 6:35-6:40 pace. But it got so dark and there were so many water puddles around Rice that I opted to do a long Marathon pace run (10 miles at 7:10) rather than a tempo run. I ran easy rest of the week (Wed/Thursday). I took Friday off because I wanted to join ASHA folks for an easy run on Saturday morning. Now, running with BCRR has taught me to be very prompt for runs. I showed up exactly at 6:40 for 6:45 am run and had to wait till 7:25 to start the run because no one showed up in time. Bummer !!! However, there was a silver lining. I met Sachin who is a relatively new runner and very enthusiastic about running. I ran 6 easy miles with him at

Weather prediction looks great for 25K on coming Sunday. Hopefully, it won't be too warm and humid like half marathon 2 weeks back. I ran this race last year and broke down mentally in the middle of race. After finishing two loops (around 10 miles) when David, Scott and Jay hendrickson opened a gap on me, I stopped in my tracks and started walking. I jogged/walked rest of the course and finished just under 2 hours. I didn't feel like running 30k last year and my training took a little dip and I didn't finish the marathon within my goal time. This year is little different. I am training more diligently and am running more miles. I am already up around 50 miles/week. I hope I can reach 62-65 miles/week by mid December. I had a good long run on Saturday with Bob Brown and Mark Conran. We ran last 3 miles of our 18 miles run successively faster and finished at 7:15 min/mile pace. On Sunday, I wanted to do easy 12 miles but Dave helped me push the pace little bit. For 10 miles I