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Race:Double Decker Spring Run 2013
Location: Oxford, MS
Date: 4/27/2013
Time/Temp: 7:30 am / 59°
Distance: 10k
Official Time: 1:07:27
Pace: 10:52/mi

Place info
Overall: 413 out of 815
Age Group: 14 of 17
Gender: 147 out of 159

Official Race Results Here

First off, yes, I know I haven’t blogged about anything in ages. But I’ve been busy, and it’s fairly obvious nobody except me reads them anyway, so I only have to blog about what I want a record of for my own personal reasons anyway.

Now, to the race.
In case it isn’t fairly obvious. I’m not running very well anymore. I signed up to the Double Decker Spring Run after deciding to bow out of the Country Music Marathon this year. (Which apparently was a Monsoon on Saturday). I keep up a weekly running schedule, but to be honest, the intensity isn’t like it used to be. I need to work on that.

So, this is my first race since the GumTree 10k Last year. So almost a year without a race. That is part of the reason my intensity has fallen off. Less Miles over the winter, etc. etc. etc.

That all leads to some tough miles in the Double Decker 10k. I started off alright, slower than typical for a race for me, but faster than my training runs. But the Double Decker 10k course is tough. A lot tougher than I thought it would be. Pretty much anywhere in Oxford you have to contend with hills, but this one definitely feels like it tries to put in extra ones. That’s completely opposite of Gum Tree. Which is the only other 10k I’ve done.

That led to another revelation. I had to walk some of the hills on the course in the last half of the race. Which for a 10k walking any of it was disappointing. In the end, I came in at 1:07:27 which I suppose isn’t terrible. But isn’t great either. 10:52 per mile is like over a minute per mile slower than I was running for GumTree.

It did remind me of the fun part of running though. I have done so much training over the last year and never could work out a race as stuff kept coming up. I’m going to start training a little harder and getting back my running mojo. I really think I need to do a fall half or full. Probably only half, but I would still like to do a full. I’m also going to do a fun 5k with my daughter over the summer, so I’ll be getting in some extra miles as I help her train for that. Maybe it’ll come back to me soon.

written by Chris \\ tags: 10k, MS, Oxford, Oxford MS, Races, Running

Just wanted to wish Luck to all the Full and Half Marathoners at the St Jude Memphis marathon this morning. That also means that my full marathon is now officially a year old. I guess I won’t be renewing it just yet.

Im still not all in for the Mississippi Blues marathon. I’ve been doing the training but I haven’t registered. I think I’m dropping to the half though. My knee seems to kill me after about 10 miles lately. Nothing concrete yet. I intend to register for it within the next week.

written by Chris \\ tags: 13.1, 26.2, Memphis, Mississippi, Running, St. Jude, Tennessee

16 miles on Saturday, but I got up so early in the morning that I didn’t even think about music or anything, in fact, I listened to like one or two songs, then I switched it to a podcast, I think Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and Car Talk. So I didn’t have any songs from Saturday.

But a five mile trail run on Tuesday gave me this one. I didn’t run on Sunday, I was tired, and my knees were killing me.

written by Chris \\ tags: BSOTR, Seven Nation Army, White Stripes

Only a short 4mi run yesterday. On the whirlpool trails again yesterday afternoon. Same as before, I tend to pay more attention to my footing than the music, but I love this woman’s voice, and it’s hard not to listen when she’s singing.

This song is beautiful, I don’t care that it’s not all that conducive to running, When I’m running so slow it doesn’t really matter on the pacing anyway.

written by Chris \\ tags: BSOTR, Regina Spektor, Samson

This is sort of a double edition of Best Song on Today’s Run today. I ran 14 miles on Saturday. It really really hurt. More than I thought it would. Hopefully it gets a bit easier next Saturday I only have 12 scheduled. Plus after that I was walking around in the grove all day Saturday and then to the marathon of a Texas A&M vs. Ole Miss Game, which ended late, and horribly for the Rebels.

All this amounted to me skipping my Sunday 3 mi recovery run. I just wasn’t feeling it, and didn’t really do much of anything on Sunday. I wanted to mow the lawn as well, but that wasn’t happening (and still hasn’t, I’m hoping to do that this evening).

So, what makes this a double edition, is that I ran on Tuesday for the first time since the 14 mi run. It was actually quite pleasant. I did a 4mi trail run at whirlpool, but I also did it sans iPod, so I don’t really have a best song from that run. I don’t do that very often, but every once in a while, I like to do so just so I get a feel for my breathing, etc.

written by Chris \\ tags: BSOTR, Guitar, Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze