Human Race
Today was the annual 'Human Race' put on my Nike each year. Nike co-ordinates the 10 kilometer race each year, and I find it interesting to see how I stack up against those around the world. This morning however, Calgary decided to turn into a slushy winter wonderland, and running around outside my comfort zone. I went down to the office to run my 10k.
I managed to get the ten kilometers done in 1:15:27. Last year my time was 1:12:40, so I was almost 3 minutes slower this year. I would imagine the complete lack of focused training was a large contribution to that slowdown. The first half I was fairly strong, and managed to keep a decent pace. After about 6 kilometers however, I needed to slow to a crawl periodically to get my heart rate off the roof. Although, it felt really good to know that this video game playing, sleep loving beer aficionado can still pound out ten kilometers if needed.
