You always learn something everytime that you race. I went to the race confident, prepared, relaxed, excited, and willing to put it all out on the line. My dad and I were running late though and the race started at 9. So I began to warm up before we even got to the registration booth. I finished my warm up along with my dad finishing my registration. And then everything went down the tube. They were doing wave start every 10 minutes... I was the last wave. So instead of just sitting down and just waiting (probably smarter) and then warming up again, I tried to stay warm for the next hour...
I ran probably 30 seconds slower than I wanted to and it was on a downhill course.
I gave it my all though. And I'm hoping that this race was slow because of my hour+ long warm up.
I'm just going to try and forget about it. I'm getting new orthotics this week and I'm hoping that theyre going to make a huge difference. We'll see though. I'm not sure on the mileage that I'll run this week...depends how well I feel. Shin feels pretty good but with the new orthotics...I'll probably try and scale it back to 15 miles a week. Then the next week at 20 and stay there for 2 more weeks before going to 25. But thats in a long time from now. Things can change so much in just one day so we'll see....but I know one thing, I can't wait til faster training!