30K with Austin Fit

On Saturday I did a 30K run with AustinFit. The course was meant to mimic some of the AT&T Marathon course. It was a pretty challenging course, with many upward inclines and hills on Exposition. I was not sure how well I would do..or if I would make it at all, but I kept a positive attitude. Seriously, it has been less than a month since the marathon!

I ended up doing pretty well overall. The assistant coach position with Austin Fit doesn't entail too many duties, but one of them is to stay back with people who are having a hard time. On Saturday a fellow Austin Fitter was having some knee issues, so I stayed back with him for about 4 miles. At mile 15, we were a good quarter mile or more behind the group. By this time, the guy was in pretty bad shape, so he decided he was going to walk back to the Austin Fit parking lot (about a mile away if you didn't follow the course). So I decided to speed up and try to catch my group! For two miles I ran a sub 8 pace and came within 20 seconds of my group. I was able to maintain this, but I never got any closer. Around mile 17 I started to get pretty damn weak.. I basically hit "the wall" and struggled to the finish. Someone was nice enough to provide beer and champagne at the end, that was yum!

It was still a good run for me, my legs feel good and I fell like I am getting my cardio back!

The rest of the weekend was great, mostly spending time with Hava. Yesterday Hava went to a wedding expo with Tracy (she just got engaged to Raul) and she won a 5 night cruise!!!! We're going to try to go on our 1 year anniversary in September. Last night we met up with Thon, Richard, Stephanie, and Stephen to see Children of Men. It is a must see.