Heart & Sole 10K

It's been a while since I raced. I tore a calf muscle at the Castle Rock trail run, so had to take about 6 weeks to heal. This gave me a good opportunity to evaluate my training and make some changes. One thing I changed was to do one tempo, one speed work, and one endurance run a week, with 3 days of cross-training.

Last Saturday was the Heart & Sole 10k in Salinas. My time was 54:36. At 5K, my time was 26:42. That would have been a personal best for a 5K, too.

I plan on running in the Indianapolis Marathon on October 20th. In order to ease into it, I am adding one mile a week. Currently, I am up to 20 miles a week, or was until last week.

Last Thursday was bike to work day, so I did. Both ways. On my comfort bike. Dummy me had bought the wrong sized tubes for my road bike. The 700X23s get a flat as soon as a bump hits opposite the valve stem on the rear wheel. I needed 700X25s. Well, I didn't have any of the right sized tubes, and I had to be on the road at 6:10 to meet my group at 6:30. I ended riding about 40 miles that day. Since I hadn't been riding much, I was pretty tired, but my legs felt decent on Friday. Because of the long ride on Thursday, and Friday as a taper day, and the 10K on Saturday, I only ran 15 miles last week.