Goal Race A - Completed!
Maybe at some point someone will read this but in the mean time this is here for me to come back to. Yesterday I did my A goal race. It was a new personal best on that course which I'm so thankful for. But I have a few things to say that I'll hopefully remember the next time that I run this course! What I'm going to say here is going to come across as negative, I believe, but I mean it more as a way to learn and move forward. Going into the race I wasn't sure if I had trained enough. I had been training but for some reason it just didn't feel like enough. Despite this feeling we still bettered our personal best by a couple of minutes. And that's what we need to focus on. Not the other metrics that told us we would have a better time. Better to think of, on trail races, that it's a time trail against the clock and not where you are going to place among other people. That's probably my best take away. The 10 days leading into thi...