Yesterday I ran the Lacamas Lake 4 miler. It kicked my butt, handed it back to me and then kicked it again. I started off too fast (as always) I looked down at my Garmin and noticed that I was running at a 10:03 pace (my norm is about 12:30) Breathing was a little heavy so I slowed down my pace to about 11:30. I was feeling good, then we got to about 1.5/1.75 miles and we went off road to the trail. I thought wow this is great, then came the rolling hills on the trail. Glad no little ears were to close cause I am sure a few curse words flew out of my mouth. (I did not know that this was another easy part). As we exited the trail and met up with the pavement I thought "Sweet" I know pavement. What I didn't know was the hill at mile 3 that awaited me and the others. It was evil. The only positive thing about this hill for me was to see the other runners/walkers panting as heavy as I was. :o) After climbing up the evil hill, I made my way to the track and to the finish line. As I was running and about a 1/4 of a lap from the finish my left calf muscle screamed mercy. I stopped to stretch it (cause I couldn't do much else) a lady screamed at me "NO!!!! Don't stop you are almost there!!!!" well my calf muscle listened to her and it relaxed and I made a run for that finish line. After the race I told myself that I would not do this race again, next year I would volunteer at the race, but not run it again. Then a little switch went off and I decided next year I would run it and I would kick it back. Last year I would have never considered running this or any race, in fact Danielle F. for instance said "you should start running" I promptly asked her "whom would be chasing me and with what?" Thanks Danielle, look what you have done. :o)
Fit Right NW did a great job putting this race together, count me in for the next one. Now to actual train on some trails.
