Race Tomorrow

It's been a really strange time lately.

I'm racing the Times Colonist 10K here tomorrow. It's our city's biggest race. It rained a lot yesterday. Did I say a lot? Today was really nice. I like running in the rain, so either way is good for me tomorrow.

Not really going to race it. I haven't had any real sustained hard efforts in my disjointed training lately, so my plan is to run it strategically. I'm actually planning on doing closer to 15 kilometres tomorrow. I am going to run for a half hour real slow prior to the gun going off. So I figure I'll get in at least 4-5 K there.

The first 5 K of the race are rolling; actually the whole race is a rolling course; there really is nowhere flat in Victoria. I figure I'll go out at 4:30/kilometre pace and then come back at closer to 4:10/kilometre. I'm just testing my legs and endurance tomorrow and figure that a negative split is always a good goal for a race that I don't expect to have a great showing in; I'm no where close to be able to better my personal best time over this course from two years ago. It was 39:30.

If I go sub 43 minutes tomorrow I'll be happy. Heck, I'll be happy even if I don't. Life's good. I love to run. I'm almost graduating.

Have a bunch of urological tests at the end of the week. I'm a bit nervous. I suspect the urologist is wanting to do a total revision of my ostomy. It's probably time... she turned 21 this year.