[/caption]Last year, I had planned on doing the Forks 15k, but it was during one of my many pulled muscle incidents... (Oh, and I wasn't anywhere near capable of running 15k at the time - but I'm not going to mention that part.. Totally going to blame the pulled muscle and pretend I could have done it otherwise.) The big difference between this year and last year - is I have been very careful to NOT pull a muscle. (I also feel its worth mentioning that I have been training this year as well...) Now I hadn't done 9 miles this year, but I had done a couple of 7 and 8 mile runs, so I knew I had this.
For Reference, the only other 15k I have done is the Utica Boilermaker last year in 1:30:20.
Yesterday was looking to be a bit chilly - 40's to low 50s, beautiful running weather! I headed up to Chenango Forks Highschool to register and was faced with my first quandary of the day.
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[/caption]Do I need to start with the "early" starters - that get to go 15 minutes early? I know I am not the speediest runner - but how slow am I? Well, after seeing the Orange things the early starters had to wear, I decided not too, as orange clashes with my complexion.
All joking aside - I figured I was probably going to be ok with not doing the early start. There were around 225 people at the starting line when they yelled "Go" (followed by the beeping of countless GPS watches/phones starting.)
