It's been 4 weeks since my last post and we've had a lot happen in that amount of time. First of all, Kimi and I went to Columbia to run the Roots'n'Blues 10k for the 4th year in a row. It's been one of those races that for whatever reason, has eluded Kimi in regards to winning. This year, was definitely one that we both feel we let slip away. For the first time in the 4 years, this is one that we can honestly say we didn't do our best preparation for. The following weekend, Kimi ran the Panther Run 10k which she took 1st place in. This was one of her easiest wins in a long time. While she was running the race, I did a 6 mile tempo run. There are many times, where doing a workout seems more beneficial than participating in a race, and this was one of those for me.
Over the last week, we had two awesome workouts. On Wednesday morning, Kimi and I got up and went to the Frisco trail. I don't know what we were thinking on this one but of course it was extremely dark. However, that didn't stop us from having a stellar workout. We ran the first 3 mile press just under 6 minutes per mile circling around the streets just off the trail and then heading down the trail as soon as it was light enough to see where we were going. The next 2 mile press was also solid near 5:55 pace and then the final 1 mile was near 5:47. We didn't finish quite as fast as we had hoped but all in all, it was a good workout.
On Saturday, we made the short trip up to the Drury track for some 400's. 16 of them to be exact. We were both curious how this workout was going to turn out, but never did I have any doubts that we'd be able to complete it. I won't go into all the details and list all the splits but we did manage to hit all of them under 80 seconds. The sad part for me is that any time we sprinted, Kimi would just pull away from me like I was standing still. That girl has some major foot turnover.
This coming weekend, Kimi and I are going up to Kansas City for the Waddell and Reed Half Marathon. I'm not planning to race it myself so I'm sure I'll be gearing up for a nice hard workout on either Friday, or Saturday. I think I might try to get it in on Friday so I can ride a bike around KC Saturday and cheer for Kimi. My big race is coming up about 3 weeks from now. I'm gearing up for the Bass Pro Half for the 4th year in a row and looking forward to the challenge.
That's pretty much all that's been going on with us over the last week or so. Hopefully I'll have some good news to report next week following the KC Half.
