May Training Update
Red is Strength.
Blue is Cardio.
I think this is showing I’ve really gotten more into yoga over the past few months. I think it is really helping me not feel bad about my runs as I’m getting some really good stretches in!
Memorial Day 5K Race Recap
After the Run for the Music 10K, my husband wanted to do another 10K to try to improve his proof of time for Wine & Dine. As the run season in Southwest FL is winding down, there weren’t a lot of options for that prior to the cut off. Punta Gorda hosts a very small race on Memorial Day for the benefit of the veterans of Charlotte County. It is only limited to the first 300 registrants total between the 5K & 10K. I had tried to sign us up the year prior but waited too long as it does sell out at least a month before the race. We woke up at 4:45AM to get on the road up to Punta Gorda and arrived there right at 6:00AM. We picked up our packets and headed back to the car to put on our bibs and to look through the welcome packet and were happy to see that we both got nice maroon tech shirts, cliff bars, various freebies from local vendors and coupons for some area restaurants. Usually we don’t get those type of things for races around here!
The race started at 7AM - my husband had gone towards the front of the runner’s shoot for the start since he is fast. I stayed towards the back in front of the strollers as I was definitely under trained as the most I had run since Princess was a 2.05 Mile run at the beginning of the month. I had set up intervals on runkeeper for 30/75 to see how it would work for me. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it really worked out well as I felt I still had energy at the end of the race and the only run interval I walked thru was at the water stop as it was very humid this morning so I wasn’t going to pass up that drink! I was pleased with my results as it was my fastest official race time in the last year as according to the official results I finished at 47:11 which puts me at a 15:11 official pace.
Runkeeper Results
My husband didn’t do as well as he had at Run for the Music as he finished at 55:44 which is a 8:58 pace but he had a great race overall. He admitted he started out too strong as he was trying to keep up with the 5K sprinters and as the first 5K of this race is an out and back over a bridge, neither of us were prepared for that incline as Naples is pretty flat. He placed 2nd in his age group which is awesome and I think 10th overall for the males.
Husband Finishing
2nd Place Dog Tags
At the race finish, instead of a medal we were given a towel, bottle of water and an electrolyte ice pop. They also had bananas, bagels, peanut butter, granola bars, oranges and juice for us in the finishing area.
For being such a small race, my husband and I were both extremely impressed at how well it was run. The race started on time, which seems to never happen at local races. The course was well marked. They were prepared for the racer’s needs and it was nice that they also had a raffle for the runners to participate in (we didn’t win that though) My husband wants to do it again next year.
General Health Update
At the beginning of the month, I went to the doctor for my yearly check up as I hadn’t gone to one since we moved to Naples, FL, so I was a bit overdue. (Shame on me) While taking my history, I explained how I’ve been told I have PCOS, explained my frustration for my weight and talked about some other things as I told how it felt my last doctor in Georgia didn’t really want to deal with my PCOS unless I wanted to get pregnant. When we talked about my activity levels and how much weight I’m not really losing, we talked about how my PCOS can be the cause of that. This meant I needed to get some blood work done so he could confirm as I couldn’t find a copy of the my work from last year from work. I went back to the doctor this past Friday and now have been placed on a couple different medications. We’ll see if that helps jump start it all! It also should help my moods once we get my hormones leveled out.
May Miles Ran: 18.7 miles
Total 2015 Miles Ran: 134.6 miles