Don't really know why but didn't really feel like it. I'm in my late 40's could have run but didn't.
I've run this race a number of years and have always enjoyed doing it. The competition was always exhilarating. I loved the challenge.
Now I'm not racing today but am posting on Letsrun. Weird.
No big deal. I am in my mid 50s. One of the things that you have to learn and accept as an older runner is that some days the energy is just not there, and there is no predicting when that will occur. Relax, enjoy the day and know that the energy and fire to race will be back some other day soon.
thanks - thats really my concern is not having the "energy and fire to race" You are right I'm sure it will come back. (And its not the first time I've done this, I even didn't make plans with a running buddy just so I could back out if I wanted to)
For years I had that "fire to race" and loved its just weird to not be into it.
You weren't running the Indy Classic, were you?
no smaller local race
How is your training going this summer? Do you have goals for the winter? What was your goal this saturday?
I also didn't do a 5K this morning in the next town over. And there's a chance I could have won, too.
In a spring version of the race a year ago, I took a distance second to a guy I bet didn't show this morning either. But he's a HS CC coach, so he was probably at a meet.
That'd be a better excuse than mine: I just wanted to sleep in. Ran 5 miles late morning pushing my two kids in the stroller though. A better alternative to dragging them and my wife out of bed early.
No regrets.
I have had this happen many times but I make myself go, telling myself that time, place, doesn't matter. I am always happy that I went, no matter what the outcome.
i'm glad you didn't show up for that race, late sleeper, because i ended up winning it! the HS CC coach, and, yes, he's beaten me a few times before too, also didn't make it because he did have a meet.
funny thing you mention the stroller, because our babysitter called in sick, so i had to push my triplets in our stroller for 3k, where i prearranged with my wife that she would catch up and take over the duty. i was lucky a race volunteer was nice enough to keep an eye on the kids until my wife, who isn't exactly Meseret Defar, if you know what i mean, came through for her turn at the wheel. what a day!
Well, I'll just tell you I'll be 53 in 2 weeks and I feel that way before most races and I convince myself; well I'll just go run because for the sake of running because I know deep in my heart that is what I like to do, and in the end I usually do pretty well and then I am happier than I would have been if hadn't run at all. Peace.
I also didn't do a two mile race last saturday. Last year I ran 9:23 on dirt. I was 40 year old how was the HS Coach?
I didn’t run this morning for the last 35 years. Not because I didn’t want to, but because … well that’s another story. But I do have wonderful, vicious, intense and fast workouts in my head, just like when I could run. And every once in a while I have a race where I smash my PR and beat some of those guys I knew I ‘could’ have. The strategic mistakes that I made in some of those races … gone. And often I realize there were days and weeks I grew weary of the fight. Those 15-20 milers in the sticks/the foothills were a hassle at times. Those hours on the tracks. But those races where it all came together – ahhh. Tomorrow I will wake up and not run again. Almost the end of the world as I knew it. Something about perspective I think.
Ironically, I was out late last night with my assistant HS CC Coach, and we were tipping a few back, if you catch my drift, discussing our strategy for the big meet. He had just finished the Jack Kerouac collection, and was real big on Jim Beam and Ginger, for some reason. I myself am more of a Guinness man, but he kept buying me those Jim Beam and Gingers. Needless to say, I passed out, and my assistant HS CC Coach had to take the team this morning, leading them to a seeep in boys and girls, varsity and jv.
I wish I would have been sober enough to wake up on time to make that race, knowing my HS CC team was in good hands, because I would have beaten you again, just like I beat Late Sleeper last spring. I need to stop drinking before meets, I guess, or build up a better tolerance to the Beam.