{"id":3020,"date":"2014-09-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2014-09-15T08:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:43:30","slug":"sort-race-report-revenge-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/15\/sort-race-report-revenge-penguins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sort of a Race Report &#8211; Revenge of the Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, from now until October 4th, I&#8217;m hosting an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stelladot.com\/ts\/aw816\" target=\"_blank\">online Stella &amp; Dot trunk show<\/a> as part of my fundraising efforts for Team Fight and the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults.\u00a0 A portion of the proceeds will go to Team Fight, and all hostess rewards will be placed on eBay for additional fundraising dollars.\u00a0 I would love it if you would check out the show and place an order if something strikes your fancy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, onto the running.\u00a0 This weekend, I ran the Revenge of the Penguins ten miler.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know that I would say that I raced it.\u00a0 This was a small local ten and twenty mile race that I got roped into because Jen needed a twenty miler for her marathon training.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t about to run twenty, but I could handle ten.\u00a0 Plus I have another ten mile race next month, so it was a good bit of training.<\/p>\n<p>The race itself was very nice.\u00a0 It was on the C&amp;O Canal Towpath, which I had never run before.\u00a0 The path wasn&#8217;t closed for the race, which meant a lot of bikers had to try to get around runners.\u00a0 Not a huge deal though.\u00a0 And it was a super pretty race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1602-e1410784512514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3021\" src=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1602-e1410784512514-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1602\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1602-e1410784512514-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1602-e1410784512514-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I ran the first 6ish with Jen, at which point I hit the 10 mile turnaround.\u00a0 It was nice to run with her again and get to chat.\u00a0 She&#8217;s gotten so much faster than me that it&#8217;s hard for us to run together.\u00a0 But apparently, my comfortable ten mile pace is an okay training pace for her twenty miles.\u00a0 If we had been doing the same distance, she would have blown me away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1602-e1410784512514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3021\" src=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1602-e1410784512514-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1602\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1602-e1410784512514-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1602-e1410784512514-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to finish in 2:15, which would have meant a solid 13:30 pace, but I really wasn&#8217;t pushing for it.\u00a0 I just wanted 13:30 to magically be my comfortable pace.\u00a0 I finished in 2:16:44, which still isn&#8217;t bad.\u00a0 The last mile or so was tough and my legs are sore today.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve also not been run training as much as I should be.\u00a0 Either way though, I&#8217;m not far off that 2:15, and I&#8217;d be okay with 2:15 at Army Ten Miler next month.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a good training day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, from now until October 4th, I&#8217;m hosting an online Stella &amp; 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