A couple of months back I set the goal of running a 10K. I did that this morning with a charity run for the families of our soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
i'd like to say I did well. I finished. Which is great. About middle of the pack. Which is better than finishing last. Because of my calf tear I had only trained to 5K, so the 10K was a real challenge. I hadn't run that long since the Bay To Breakers.
There were only about 20 runners, so it was a very small and disperse group. That's pretty tough since normally I depend on other folks for pacing and encouragement during long races. So there were a few times when I doubted if I could even make it. But somehow I muddled through. The last mile was really tough. The guy said if we got back to the park we were done, turned out there were about 500 more yards to go and that was killer. But I finished reasonably strong.
I think this is kinda like swimming the mile. The first time it was horrible and painful. And the next time I did it in 10 minutes less. And now it's not easy, but it's do-able every time. I'll start training to 10K from here on out.
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