fall back!

fall back! It's daylight savings time! We 'gain' an hour so I rest a little more. Need it now since I got sick (caught the bug from co-workers).

Saturday agenda-race!

Most events for the weekend were scheduled today:

1. purple stride 5k (Tampa)
2. wellington community fitness run
3. stepping out to cure scleroderma 5k
4. cell-ebration 5k
5. making democracy run
6. red kettle 5k
7. glow run

With so many available, I passed on the 1st 3 due to distance. Due to illness and previous engagement, I passed on the latter that couldve made this a double header day, not to mention that the race day fee (found out about event last night) was $45 and with no clear answer on age groups, that's a no go! as for #6, first, i didn't like paying to get into that 'dump' last time and #2, under current internal conditions, the course would likely be too challenging. With the remaining, I picked the one I knew how to get to, passing on #5.

The weather (external conditions) was great, cool with little wind, however, internal conditions were bad (sick this day & most of week). I actually lead (reluctantly) about half the race, sometimes pacing with Rachelle, the overall female winner. Then some 29 year old passed me and at one point a large margin. By the grace of God, I caught up to him by 3 mile marker, then the sprint was on! Unfortunately, I couldn't match up with his young legs & shape and forced to settle for runner up. All who placed got medals.

Sunday agenda-race!

All I was aware of was NYC marathon and boca pal half/5k. The former was cancelled at last moment by cowardice mayor due to pressure from non running community & negative newscasters over the event running despite the fact a cat 2 hurricane (sandy) went by causing some damage. On top of that, the NYRRC added insult to injury by only guaranteeing your slots, if you pay the higher entry fee next year. That means you lose ALL your money, not to mention time invested ! Well, I been there, done that so no need to risk entering again. More bad news, but this affected only me. I did the latter event but not the half (got 2 lined up after this weekend). For the first time since I done this events, most of the elite distance runners thought the same as me, which means I lost before the race even started; I saw 5 master runners in my cat faster than me, even on a good day! This, by the way, opened up the path for teammate Jon W to win the entire half.  It didn't help that I was feeling sicker and more tired, plus slower than the previous day. What I feared came to pass, but considering the aforementioned, I faired better than expected finishing 4th in age group. Gotta get well and back to the drawing board!