Greetings to all!
So this morning at a respectable 6am, the training for Fat Dog 2011 began!
We started out @ North Shore Athletics on 12th and Lonsdale, and went out to Dundarave and back for an 18 Kilometer distance!
For my part-i felt it went really well! the big part for me was the nerves the night beforehand with starting to realize that the training is actually kicking into gear, making sure i was up in time to make it to the meeting area at 6-all that fun stuff...
In any case, we took it at a nice easy pace-not too slow, but comfortable enough to keep a conversation going. We made it back right at 8 (starting a few minutes after 6), and did our cool down stretches before heading our seperate ways!
Again-i feel like it went really well! Talk to me after we do 19 tomorrow and there's a chance it might be a different story, but for now it's all good! A little case of sluggish legs right now, but making sure to stretch throughout the day so that tomorrow isn't too rough!
Temperature was great! Didn't overheat too much, and no frozen fingers either! Always a plus. Ran into a few friends from the clinics @ NSA as we stretched after the run, which was cool. 'Twas a little slippery along the roads at some points, so we made sure to tread carefully, and there was only one brief slip-up (no serious injuries, so no worries).
It's going to be a lot easier on the nerves for the next little while i think, now that the first training run is out of the way-so i look forward to the future!
-Noel
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