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Sunday, January 09, 2011

Honeymoon Island Adventure run

Beautiful sky building for a wonderful day

January is a hot month, not on the thermometer but on the event calendar. Wouldn't have it any other way. Started this morning with the Kiwanis Honeymoon Island adventure run. I've lived here in this area for nearly 14 years but have never been to the rustic, natural Florida park of Honeymoon Island. Beautiful and kicking myself for never having been here before. Oh well, went today for this 5 mile "adventure" run. The adventure was that it was all off-road, trails, deep sand, rocks, roots, wind and cold. I love this stuff! And, the flyer said "no sissies". Right up my alley! We truly trained through this one as the next two races are going to be peak run races for the winter. Started back in the pool this week (not pretty) and back doing hard trainer rides during the week so not exactly tapered for this one. I did skip the tempo run this week, figured this race would fit the bill! It did. It was chilly in the mid 40's (yes, chilly for us) and windy when we arrived. Yada, yada, yada, won overall for the women in a reasonably large field (pure runners stay away from this type of course, it's NOT a fast course) and 8th overall. The Dane was 7th overall and I couldn't catch him in the end but tried anyway. Mostly, it was fun and a great workout and will definitely be on my calendar next year! Saw a bunch of folks that we know and had some post-race hydration thanks to Fred (aka best race director in the world!). So, continue with multisport training, racing 10K next weekend then 1/2 marathon the following week. Solid and, hopefully, will drop us into tri season with good run base. I feel good about it and happy to be healthy again.
Cheers.

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