Wow, it is getting down to the wire when I have to resort to a Beatles song for a blog title. Think of it more of a mocking gesture like when I attend birthday parties and continually tell people “Well it’s my birthday too, yeah”…Yes, I dislike that band. Anyway, it is literally one day left in the month and I have one post to go to make my quota. Fortunately for me, I already had this topic planned and just needed make sure I had 5 posts in before today. It may have been planned, but I needed to successfully complete something first. If you have been around the blog for at least a few years you know the end of July brings a very important event for me in the running schedule. The BIX7 race was held in Davenport IA this morning and I was there wearing my racing orange.
Linda took my traditional pre-race picture and I must say I look a lot happier than I did for the Steamboat Race. I can contribute a lot of that happiness to not having a bad hamburger the night before. In fact, we made doubly sure nothing like the night before Steamboat happened again. Instead, Linda made my favorite spaghetti recipe rather than risk another carry out catastrophe. In the past, this has been the race I’ve trained for all year. Normally I would be peaking at 8 miles the week before the race with plenty of hill work and a healthy dose of 5K speed runs to get the leg turnover I wanted. That was not the case this year due to a Life List event planned for later in the year that is pretty much getting my full training attention. This year I lined up with a completely retooled body. I probably hit the line at around 153 pounds as a result of a planned shedding over 12 pounds of weight since late last year (click here if you want details on some of the loss). With the weight off I could focus on resetting the body to meet the demands of the future event. This brought me to a peak of 12.3 miles but at the cost of my previous speed, losing at least a minute per mile on average. With all that considered along with the Bix@6 training run earlier in July the initial projections was to come in around the 63 minute mark…. ummmmm that didn’t end up happening.
Hit the jump to read details of the race and see the all important post race pictures.
