The Trail Nerds held their second of the series of trail races on Friday night. Before the run, I was wondering (nervously) how I'd do. I was feeling pretty good and wanted to do well, but realized that I was actually WORRYING about it! WHY? Not sure really, but on the way there, instead of the usual pre-race tunes, (Linkin Park, Prodigy, etc...) I put in some pretty chill ambient stuff and it relaxed me a bit. That helped me rearrange my goal for the race from wanting to do as well as I could, to just wanting to make it an enjoyable run. It went great and we had a very good turnout for such a low-key race. Instead of rehashing the whole thing, I'll just let someone else's well-written report suffice. Check out Jake's account of it here.
Dick Ross generously photographed the runners. His pictorial account of the race can be found here!
One thing I REALLY think I need to work on though is the pre-race warm-up. I HATE doing little runs before a race to warm up and I dont' think they've ever helped me. Could be wrong on that, but it's my perception. BUT, I also don't feel warmed up before the race and when I go out too hard, it hurts the lungs, and jacks my heartrate WAY up! Anyone have advice for this?
The post below shows what I have in the way of mtn bikes. I'll be selling those sometime and I think I'll get one of these!
2 comments:
I think we talked about possibly spinning before hand to get your body warmed up. From my personal experience I run for about 20-30 minutes (3-4 miles) and that usually gets the body ready to roll. Everybody is different though.
I second the cycling recommendation for a warm-up. My wife and I do very little warmup at most summer races due to the heat, but after reading your post that sought good warmup ideas and then also displayed the photo of the bike, it made sense...we've never cycled before a run either, but it may be a great solution.
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