Monday, June 8, 2009

Should I run Garden of the Gods 10 miler?

http://gardentenmile.com/index.htm
I participated in this last year. My original plan was to skip the race altogether this year seeing as I hadn't specifically trained for this and am still in recovery mode from my marathon.

But the ambitious side of me wants to run it anyway because of 3 reasons:

1. This will be the first and only repeat race in Colorado Springs where I can try to stomp my time from the year prior.

2. It's in Garden of the God's!!! Need I say more? It's so beautiful! There aren't a lot of running areas quite like Colorado in El Paso TX.

3. I would like to see what my fitness level is post marathon...but that reason really doesn't help because that's what Sailin' Shoes 5K was going to be for.

Ultimately if I do this race and I race hard I won't be in tapered shape for the 5K.

What will I choose? Guess you'll have to check back in a couple days and see if there's a race report.

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