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- port city moms 5k
-- warm up
-- 5k race in 19:07 (chip), 19:10 (watch).
-- cool down
won the race! i thought this race was tomorrow and am glad i double-checked this morning. RPE 9.5, not quite all out, next time i do a 5k the focus has got to be killing myself for the final km. ran a negative split but km 4 and 5 were the same.

two days off plus a little bit of rehab seems to have fixed my achilles, so that's also good.

headed out this morning and achilles felt fine for the first two minutes but then just started to announce itself. left lower leg is also quite tight. fml.

- run 57:42, 10.49 km
right calf/soleus a little tight

 

- run 59:19, 10.50 km
legs starting to feel normal again.

should poke around to see what looks interesting in late winter/early spring 2027, i guess

or you could come across the pond and do one over here. the only US marathons worth traveling that far for in the spring are boston, obviously, and maybe eugene just because of the running history there. actually, if i don't qualify for boston this year then eugene 2027 might be in the cards. but in the fall there's a bunch of great ones: the other US majors but also marine corps, wineglass, philadelphia, richmond, indianapolis monumental, CIM (if you can get in).

some great sub-marathon spring races as well. i also kind of want to do cherry blossom ten miler next year, it's pretty iconic. some of my running buddies are doing brooklyn half in a couple of weeks, which seems cool and can qualify you for the new york marathon.

OTOH, i also kind of want to come over and do some of the big european races at some points, so maybe what i'm really doing is talking myself into traveling the other way, lol.

- run 55:24, 10.13 km
with the track group but i just did lazy circles. a bunch of people had also raced last weekend - there's a big road 10k nearby that i'd like to do next year - so i wasn't alone. a couple of the guys PR'd in that race. legs still pretty dead and hamstrings still pretty sore. left ITB started bugging a little right above my knee, right at the end. probably nothing to worry about.

thanks! the duration itself didn't feel hard, i do think the fact that i've raced longer distances helps anything shorter feel more manageable. i wasn't moving at a "serious pace" in either of the ultras i did last year but that sensation of needing to try hard just to keep my legs turning over was not new. the JFK took me more than 2.5 times as long.

in re: strength work, davis does recommend deprioritizing it closer to the race, but i bailed on it too early IMO. part of the problem is just that it's a hassle to get to the gym, and my workouts didn't/don't need to be long, so it seems weirdly out of balance. 45-minute round trip to do 30 minutes of work. hopefully getting stuff for the house will make it easier to just keep a baseline level of consistency.

i hope it's true about sawe. and man that's funny about toledo getting a shout-out from magness, i didn't realize it was the third-fastest time ever for an american. that's wild. well, i bet it'll be more popular with elites and sub-elites next year.