Well on April 30th I ran the ½ Country Music Marathon. During the week I had some conferences and seminars to attend which required me to pull back on my training due to scheduling issues. It setup me up for a nice taper. Friday morning I was feeling good about the race and hoping to PR a ½ marathon. Then later in the day I started to feel head cold like symptoms come on. They just got worse through the rest of the day. When I got home from work I had a massive head ache. I knew then that the ½ marathon wouldn’t go well. I woke up Saturday morning feeling worse. I would not have trained feeling the way I did, but I was already registered for the race and didn’t want to waste the money. So I went ahead. I started off a little too fast then got into a nice pace. I momentarily had delusions that my head cold would not slow me down. Around mile 6 I was hurting and slowed down. I ended with 2:08 which I find horribly disappointing. However the ½ CMM is not my goal of the year, so I told myself to let it go and move on. I will just write it up as another crappy CMM. Last year I attempted the full but was cut short for 4 miles due to bad weather which really wasn’t that bad.
After a short recovery, I have about a week of pure volume training outside the CFE protocol that I will now put in until I take a week off for a conference and vacation. My goal is to simply put lots of yards and miles in and then recover during the trip.
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