Race Report, or something like it

Had my first race of the season on Sunday, a 10km, and it went pretty well. Considering I only really got back into running in January, not that I haven't done anything since IM last August, but I definitely wasn't running. Anyway, I digress, it was a hilly course, much more so than I expected, so my legs were dead by the end of it, but I felt pretty good. I was shooting for anything under 50 minutes as I hadn't run a 10km time trial in quite some time and had no idea what to expect. My time was 48:24, not great, but not bad all things considered. I got stuck behind some people who figured they were faster than they were so I had to jostle in and out of the crowd for the first km or so. The hills started by the 3rd km and never really stopped until 7km in at which point the rest of the course was a huge downhill. Several races were on the same course so I was never sure how I was doing until I hit the downhill and us 10kmers went one way and the half marathoners went another. I was now in the mix with the early half marathon starters, mostly walkers, so I felt like I was flying downhill as I whipped by all of them. Of course the euphoria only lasted so long as the downhill turned into a flat, then slight uphill for the last 1.5km. My legs were dead at this point and I was barely hanging onto a 4:50/km. My HR was 191, but I felt okay and at this point I just wanted to be done. I ended up 11/224 ladies and 5/68 in my age group. Not bad, now time to use this and get better :)

I'm kind of ranted out lately with all the Olympic stuff, but I will say this. I think "Own The Podium" has been a success. Are we leading the medal count? Certainly not, but look at who has come through for Canada with medals. It hasn't been all the athletes we expected to because it just wasn't their day or maybe because they were under tremendous pressure and cracked, no one knows but them. Who has come through for Canada are all the underdogs, the athletes no one even had on their radar. That's what Own The Podium has done. Speaking of underdogs, Luongo is taking the reigns now....

I should stop trying to write blogs about stuff that's not interesting for me to think or write about. Yeah I train for Ironman. Yeah I bike and swim and run every week. Sure it's fun and interesting to talk about all that stuff, but I'm deviating from my true cynical, sarcastic nature here. It's time to bring that back. I would like to conduct this blog like so: I will begin with writing down my training/triathlon thoughts for the day/week/month then I will bring up something that irks me or makes me shake my head or want to punch someone in the baby maker. Why? Cause that's who I am and cause I have to laugh at shit if I'm going to get through life. I like to make fun of things, myself included. Sooooooo, on that note:

Training is going pretty well lately. Looking forward to my first "race" of the season. Just a 10km test race, not sure what the hell that means, but it's only 10km so I can consider it one of those 'the faster you run Heather the faster this will be over with'. I love training and triathlon in general, but I still have a little hate-on for running, especially fast running - I'm working on it - maybe some therapy would help.

Speaking of therapy I recently completed a month long cleanse. I feel great, energized, clear-headed, all of those things...but I was thinking (with my clear head), why do just a body cleanse, why not a mental cleanse as well? So, on that note I am working on ridding my life of any residual bullshit and that includes people that create it or just plain embody it. Life is too short. I like to laugh. I don't mince words and I always try to tell it like it is. Don't be afraid, I'm actually very personable and nice and have even been called, "great with people" - maybe I'm just a good actor muwahaha. If you too are personable, nice, interesting, funny and honest we will get along fine, regardless of whatever differences we may have. I don't think those are unreasonable qualities to ask for - do you?
Okay, back to mental cleansing therapy. I am deleting someone from my life. They are completely poisonous and energy draining. We have nothing in common and I don't enjoy their company. I believe that they view friendship as a commodity - a friend is something to post as an accolade or accomplishment. I have known this person for quite some time, but would not honestly be their "friend" if we were to meet today for the first time. Not really even sad about it. More annoyed at myself for not stepping up to the plate and doing it much sooner. There is much more to this of course, but this isn't a place for airing personal details, other than mentioning that this person is a prime candidate for my first REAL punch in the baby maker.