Turkey Trot 5K Recap
Today was the day I had been thinking about for the past 5 weeks or so. It was race day! My last race, to recap, was the trail race at the end of August. It went well but I came out of that race kind of down due to expectations being set to high and it messed with my head a bit. I did get over and it's helped me reframe how I think about racing. Racing shouldn't be worrying about what place you will get or even what time you should get (mainly for trails I've discovered) but should be about you versus the course. So that's how I went into this race. As I mentioned in my post last week my critical power did go down but I thought that was a mistake. However I thought about it all week and thought maybe it was correct. On Monday I did a work out of 6 times 2 minutes with 1 minute recovery which was about half of what I had done the previous Monday and I have to say it felt relatively easy. So heading into the race I told myself that I was going to and stay between