With Austin behind me and the cool weather settling in here in NC the running races have picked up. Ive decided, reluctantly, to do the Inside-Out Sports Classic 10K. I had no plans to do this race until today but what I wanted/planned to do this weekend was shot down, so to speak. Id rather have missed it for the plans I had already made and not had the option of doing it, but I want to keep out of the house.

Hence I havent really done any training for the 10K since I was expecting my next race to be a 5K in three weeks. I do however know that Ill be running, cycling, and probably hitting the gym this week to keep myself busy and essentially wear myself out for a little while. With that mentality running 6.2 miles as fast as I can go sounds extremely appealing. A little self-abuse never hurt anyone right? Ill still lay off pushing myself biking since my knee still obviously has issues but it hasnt acted up running yet so its time to put it through the ringer on pavement.

This race is part of the Second Empire Grand Prix, a series of five races in the RTP area that give awards based on points earned by participating in three of the five races. I have already done the Second Empire 5K and planned to do two more so that I would qualify for the point total. Now it looks like Ill be doing four out of the five which means that Ill be in line with all the other participants since the lowest race is dropped and I missed one which gave me 0 points. Right now Im not even in the top 20 of my age group and have 594 points and the top 20 ends at 620, the top 20 males overall end at 799. So Im pretty much out of the running of having a top 20 finish unless I pick up my pace and other racers miss out on doing the required three.

Im thinking that Ill run at least six miles first thing tomorrow morning, of course that depends on how many beers I end up drinking tonight. Keeping up my trend today we lost our soccer game, among other more important things, so im having some Shiner Bocks on the couch before crashing for the night.

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