BolderBoulder 10k was on Monday. For those of you that don't know me, this is the biggest day of the year for me - It's Christmas. Seriously. The Bolder Boulder is the reason that I do endurance sports. Growing up in this town, it was an event that inspired me to do this stuff. I remember my dream of breaking an hour in the Bolder Boulder, I remember my dream of breaking 50 minutes in the Bolder Boulder, and I remember that dream of breaking the 40 minute mark. It's awesome having all of those goals as memories throughout my life as an endurance athlete. I have been able to experience so many different parts of this race that it really is special for me. I think this year may have been my 24th time running it.
That being said, I was a bit disappointed with my performance. At a 1:16 half marathon (in March), I was expecting to run around a 35:30 or so, but ran 36:05 instead. I simply just didn't have the speed that I thought I would. My splits were a bit more consistent than last year when I ran 3 seconds slower, so I guess that's a positive. All in all, this is not the easiest 10k and is at altitude so hey - I'll take it - pr by 3 seconds is still a pr.
We had our annual post BB bbq that day and had a great time. Weather was great and summer has successfully kicked off in Boulder!
Time has started to really train. It went well this week and missed a few days on the bike that I was planning on. Wind was a factor for Thurs/Fri. Run milage was good and productive, bike - not so much. Boise 70.3 is this weekend and Im excited to kick this year off!
Run: 44.3 miles Bike: 109 miles
Swim: 3500yds
And my favorite part of doing this blog: The week in pictures :) Aloha and happy training!
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| End of the Bolder Boulder: 10k is a tough tough distance. |
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| Happiest place on earth. |
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| These were cute... they made shirts for all of the people who broke 40 minutes. |
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| The memorial day in the back yard. |
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| My wifes birthday was thursday :) Great dinner at the Cork to celebrate. |
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| My son finished his first year of montessori and we had a picnic. |
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| A nice baby shower and BBQ on Saturday |
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| Erin and Nathan and Lyla live very close now... We went to check out their place on Sunday. |
