The 10k Challenge

The 10k Challenge

The plan for the month was to train and run a 10k as a group.  We started out with 1200m on N. Community House, followed by a celebrity guest Q from Citgo doing 1 mile repeats and then last week running the bull ring doing 800m.  All of this culminated with the 10k this morning.  Everyone was asked to give a time goal at the start of the month to have something to measure themselves against. 

We had 21 show up this morning at 5:00 for the event.  Wolverine and Haggis forgot about the earlier start but still managed to run the course.  We did a little warm up, got a drink of water and got the instructions of the course.  We started at 5:15 heading down Ballantyne Corporate towards Sara’s Y to complete a loop that we ran twice. 

Pretty simple challenge, run as fast as you can as long as you can and trust your training, ignore your inner doubts and keep running.  I thought the group did awesome.  We had several guys that had a PR and many others broke their stated goal.  PR for Hairball, Woodson, Flipper, Das Boot, Cheddar, Frehleys and Udder.  Polly, Vodoo and Rubber Maid ran their second fastest 10k and Mario ran his third fastest 10k.  Eclipsing their goal was Polly, Hairball, Flipper, Vodoo, Cul De Sac and Jello.  There were many others that set personal best on segments. 

Everyone should be proud of yourself.  You showed up early, ran a tough course on a warm/humid morning.  Nothing about it was easy.  Jello got lost and still beat his time goal.  Rock Thrill ran in Orlando.  It is good to give yourself a metric to see if you can hit it or not.  Not all of us hit and there is a lot to learn from that. 

I really appreciate Brat putting in all the work to set the course and zig zag back and forth encouraging everyone to do their best.  He built this thing (Swift) we are just trying to not let the wheels fall off.  He has created a great concept with the Q having a month to create a plan to challenge us and build upon our base. 

Thanks again for coming out and trying hard to reach your goal.