Archive for June 14th, 2009

Now we’re talking! 20:25 pour moi today. I came in 2nd OA (alas, no 2nd OA award, so 1st AG). Shout out to Christine (hi girl!) who came in right behind me.

The race was a blast because Judy of the Women’s BQ thread was in town and ran it, as did Audra who came down from NYC with her girlfriend Loren the night before and stayed over at my house.  Judy, Audra and I each placed in different age categories, so between us we had the 30-59 year range covered. Audra and I got 1st AG and Judy got 2nd.  Good times, good times.

My racing flats were the bomb, really comfortable with no hot-spots, leaving me happily satisfied with that anxiety-tinged purchase.  I’ve put them back on their sacred spot atop my digital scanner, the better to adore their aqua prettiness without having to turn my head.

So this race gives me an Age-Grade score of 79.91%, eeking even closer to “National Class” than my previous highest score from the last 10K (78.37%).  I know, I know…it means absolutely nothing, but it’s fun.

Coming up…I’ve got a 5-mile race this Friday at 7pm in a town about 30-minutes away, but I might bag it.  I’m only doing it to get my 5-mile PR in line with the latest, so if the weather looks eh or I’m feeling eh, I’ll have no qualms skipping it.  Then there’s another 5K the week after that, a weird one where you run around a stadium a couple times.  Sounds stupid but that’s also why it sounds fun.

Also, I’m just about to announce The Gifted Runner’s Grand Re-opening which has consumed me completely these last few weeks.  Despite the endlessly irritating aspect of having to remake everything (much bigger pain in the ass than you’d imagine) it’s been fun being creative again and thinking up new stuff.

I always end up having a great time coming up with new stuff, but when I think about thinking up stuff, I get worried I’ll think of stupid stuff so I end up not thinking about anything except the fact that I’m avoiding thinking about coming up with new stuff.  It’s a drag.

This has been my M.O. for the past year.

The only way around this is to do more, think less – design without the need for it to always be great, allow some schlock, but just keep producing and get out of my head more; not an easy task for a self-critical, anti-social hermit such as myself.  Let’s see how long this lasts…