Not a good run

Yesterday I ran a 10 mile race – and it did not go well. I ran over a minute and a half slower per mile than I did at the same time last year (when I was only training for marathons).

Was it the result of training for the full tri? I think that's probably most of it. It was very humid and I'm not a good runner in the heat. Also - I probably didn't have enough rest in the last few days.

But because of training for the Ironman, I'm my running workouts are slow paced and I'm not running as much. As a result of this I'm not as intense during my runs and I'm not used to the pounding – mentally I gave up on the race not too long after the gun went off.

Oddly enough, I wasn't that upset after the race. Normally I would have been pretty disappointed. But while I was a little worried about how much the humidity hurt me (I've got a long way to go to prepare myself for the heat that is almost sure to be present at Ironman Louisville), I knew it was really only a training run in the middle of a long road to getting ready for the real race.