Chasing the Chupacabra 10K Post race

Well, this event was pretty cool.  It was well organized and lots of fun.  The night time trail running was a little scary at first and I did eat it at one point.  I was paying attention to the guy in front of me who ate it and didn't see the stump past him that I tripped on.  Didn't get hurt, just some scrapes and dirt.  But after that it was relatively smooth sailing.  Lots of tripping and lost balance but I never hit the deck again.  At points the trail would get very narrow and if you were behind a slower runner it would get bogged down. I didn't have too many issues with this and looked at the slower pace as a nice rest.  At one point the trail came out into a clearing and there was an amazing view of downtown San Antonio and a thunderstorm south of SA.  It was really beautiful.  There was a woman that I got behind for a pretty good period of time.  She was running a pretty good pace and was great at pointing out stumps and roots and rocks.  I ended up passing her about a mile and half from the finish and wanted to find her and thank her afterwards, but amazingly, there were tons of people in neon green shirts and black shorts.  My end time was 1:03:11.  Pretty good for my first competitive 10K, in the dark, on a trail.  It was definitely a blast and I will do it again next year.  Lots of fun.

Chupacabra 10K

Getting nervous.  Ready to go. Hard to concentrate on work.  I'll update later with how I did.  GULP.

Chasing the Chupacabra 10K

Well tomorrow night is the big night.  I am pretty stoked.  I ran 6.25 miles on Sunday in under an hour, so not so nervous about doing the distance.  Now I am worried about running on trails, dirt trails, paved trails at night.  Also afraid it may be somewhat of a clusterfuck.  But whatever, I will be running at night with a headlamp on.  it should be fun.  Really looking forward to it.  I'll let you know how I do.

Get on the Good Foot

All right, ran for the first time in a month on Sunday and felt awesome.  Did a 5k in under 27 minutes.  Pretty happy with that.  Signed up for a 10K nighttime headlamp run!!  That should be fun.  I'm not worried about the headlamp running, I do that all the time.  The 10K part, a little iffy.  I'll keep you posted.

Things

Things are going all right.  I am taking a little break, trying to get the ankle to heal.  I am also doing P90X, so that takes up a lot of my running time.  But as soon as I'm done, I'll be back to running.

WTF Watches

First off, everything is going well.  Running, walking all good.  For some reason my run on Sunday kind of sucked, could have to do with eating crappily on Saturday, I don't know, but the run today was great.  But today started off very badly.  Went to put on my Garmin and it was DEAD.  Nothing, nada, nunca, blank screen, no life.  DEAD.  So I went to find my back up watch and it couldn't be found.  Luckily I am a man of many watches and found a digital that had some life in it, so I strapped that one on and got gone.  Except that when I started my run, when I pushed the start button BOTH OF THE FUCKING STRAPS BROKE!  So I ended up putting my watch in my pocket and went on my way. Had a good run, felt great but really missed my Garmin.  :(  So I get to work, all pissed off about my Garmin, ready to call those bastards up and light them up about my watch. I'd posted about it on Facebook and my running buddy Russ let me know that there was a simple fix.  Press and hold the light button.  SOB!  So it works now and now I know.  Yay.

Sunday and Monday

Yesterday, Sunday, I got in a really good run.  5 miles, which, up until a couple of weeks ago I'd never run, in the freaking South Texas heat and humidity.  The last mile was hard.  But I sucked it up and got it done.  This morning was a no run at all situation.  I just took it easy with the dog.  Three miles at a nice easy pace.  I am really stoked about my running abilities now.  My body feels great and legs are feeling good.  I hope I have many more miles to come.