Going into the TC10K I had no idea what to expect. I've been off my usual training for 3 months now, and haven't managed to run more than 30K in a week. Anyways, I was very eager to get back to racing and see how much fitness I had really lost!
The good news is I guess I haven't lost that much. I was secretly hoping to run around 39 minutes, and ended up finishing in 38:06 (114th overall, 3:49/km), which is only a minute slower than my last 10K three months ago. And even more promising is that my right knee didn't hurt during or after the race at all. Almost everything else is hurting now though, quads especially. Anyways, I'm taking this week off to fully recover, and then next week I'll be slowly building up my training, which is perfect timing because the Harrier's Tuesday night workouts are at Mt. Doug now! Woohoo.
Oh and one more thing - my team (Chisel Mod Squad) won the Education team category! Our top 5 runners averaged 42:41 which was just good enough to win the category. That's not too bad considering that there were 32 teams in the category.
Good luck to everyone going over to the Vancouver Marathon this weekend!
