A friend of mine sent me a link the other day saying, "This run sounds like fun! Want to do it with me?" ....and since I can't refuse a good run for a good cause I sign up for it. It was a benefit for a local school garden program. They teach the kids how to plant, tend, and harvest food from the school gardens and then the schools get to use the freshly organically grown fruits and veggies for the students meals. What an awesome program.
I signed up, and then totally ignored all info about the run until the night before. When I pulled up the course map I find that it's in one of the hilliest portions of town. Not big long hills, but up and down up and down incessantly. Normally that would not really a problem. It would slow me down, but no biggie. At the moment however my ITband on the left side is still killing me from the April 5k and I'm not sure how on Earth I'm going to make up and down the hills for 3 miles.
I pick up my packet and holy cow! This is the BEST race packet ever. All organic, whole food samples and treats. It's going to take me months to test all these out. The t-shirt however is about 2 sizes too big. Oh well, I'll add it to the t-shirt quilt pile.
Up and at 'em for the race. Since I now know it's hilly I prep by stretching rolling, and packing my roller with me in the car to roll out after the race. I'm really glad I did. The hills, since I've been doing no hill training lately, are brutal for me. My ITband starts screaming about a mile in. I walk some, I run what I can, and I get it done. The time isn't pretty, and I feel really stupid for not checking the course map before signing up. Time over all was 37:03. Not bad for hilly, hot, and with a gimpy ITband.
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