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Festival of Champions @ Belfast

October 1, 2011 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: Rainy

Comments:
So, this went worse than I hoped for, considering my seed was 19:00. Lots of things went wrong during the race, including a terrible cramp for the last mile that slowed me to a crawl, but in the end my body just wasn't ready to race. The adverse conditions didn't help; since I was in the seeded race the course was fairly torn up by the mud and the 5 races that had already taken place.

So overall, things didn't go too great and I was pretty disappointed. I even asked Jorma half-seriously if he'd let me not race and start training for indoor, but now I'm not sure if I'd want that. I definitely can do better than I did Saturday, and to give up after once race is less than admirable. Next week is Twin Brook, so that won't be fun but it's my chance to do better place-wise if nothing else.