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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Coming up next: The Great St. Charles Ave Road Race

The training plan I'm loosely following for the CCC 10k calls for a training 10k or 5k on March 29th. And can you believe it? There's a 10k a mile and a half from my house on that very day! It's the Great St. Charles Ave Road Race, and I ran it two years ago and won it. It was squished into the middle of a long run (18 or 20 miles, can't remember), and included an emergency bathroom break. Luckily, only about three women ran the 10k so, hehe, I won it. The joys of tiny races!

So that's my next race, unless I find a 5k to run two weeks prior to that, but I don't see any options so I'll probably skip that. It's on my training plan, though.

The Great St Charles blah blah race is a double loop into Audubon Park, which is good (flat! familiar!) and bad (walkers! joggers! bikers!). The Crescent City Classic is a faster course, but a little later in the day and later in the year, too - so it will be hot. Sometimes those humid April days are the worst running conditions. The earlier Great St bler bler bler race might give me a better chance at a PR, even if it's not my goal race.
My current PR is 40:58 and of course, yes, I want to beat that!

So about yesterdays' post - some people wanted to know what happened after I demanded the Respect for Cars Remedial education at the Cross Fit Box.
Well, I anticlimactically had to get on a conference call and ended up kind of sheepishly waiving and mouthing a "thanks!" as I tried to figure out how to mute my cellphone.
So much for that. I'm sure the minute I left the whole "box" laughed their heads off at my pettiness. and then threw a tire against a wall.



7 comments:

  1. A mile and a half from your house? Of course you're meant to run it. Couldn't have been more perfect.

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  2. Sounds perfect. You can *totally* PR! I believe this.

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  3. Home turf? It's meant to be. Go for it!

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  4. That sounds like my 35 person half-marathon that I DOMINATED last year. Actually I think I was the only one actually racing it, the average competitor was 56 y/o, and there were a lot of walkers ... but I DOMINATED!!!

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  5. You've got it!! Sounds like you are doing some smart training Gracie. My 10k PR, which I would like to re-do, was after a few practice 10k races. You learn so much from each one!

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  6. Good luck! This is the perfect time of year to race in New Orleans!

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  7. so I've been out of blog world for a while now, but I'm happy that upon my check-in to your blog that you are already back to PR range. congrats and good luck !

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