Toot Toot

OK, race season is on.............

The intrepid Val, aunt of Rookie of the Year Indy Car driver Phil Giebler, entered her first sprint triathlon of the year last weekend. With no time in the pool yet, a chain falling off in the BIG gear on an uphill, and her infamous bad heels limiting her run training.... well, "how'd you do?" The notoriously modest Val gives all the above excuses.... And of course, she was 1st in her age group. Congrats to her.

Last night was the Fremont 5k. And it does have a beer garden at the end so you know I was signed up. Gina, too. A 7pm start time does wreak havoc with our schedule/system/couch potato-ing but we try to go with the flow. At least it's in our neighborhood.

With a 7:05 pace at the first mile mark I thought oh oh.... actually I thought that the mile mark was short . I did slow a bit but remembered a recent article that said it's not such a bad idea to really go out hard on a 5K. I passed a couple people I really have no business passing, then when the last .2 was uphill I really had to keep pushing cuz I did not want those folks passing me back. Anyway, 22:34 was a great time for me.. Can't remember my 5k PR but it always seems my time is closer to 24:something so I was very happy.

Then I waited just a couple minutes for Gina to come along. and with a 25:50 time was very pleased with that 8:17 pace. What with her year long struggle with the feet (and recently renewed hamstring issue). Everybody was happy.

I found the beer garden YAHOO !! Heard my name called out as age group winner. Drained that recovery drink and we headed home for pizza. Life is good.

We got up and did 8.5 miles this morning and they felt great, so let's all get together and knock on some wood. Things (body parts) are going good.