The dragons are sleeping, and so is the mind…

The good news is that it looks like the dragons are sleeping again. There’s been no niggles since Wednesday. The bad news is that it appears to be affecting my brain!

On Saturday morning after the Striders 10k, I was confidently proclaiming a good pb on the hardest course of them all. It was a good race, well run with a 3:50 last k, so I was pretty happy. Unfortunately, when I got home to check the details, I found that my pb was actually a minute faster than I had remembered, and so my 30sec pb was actually 30 sec over! Duh! Funny how you can go from feeling so good about a run to so ordinary, when nothing about the run actually changed??

We had TA's dad's 79th birthday at our place on Saturday night, so when I crawled into bed at midnight, I decided that a 5am start in the cold and rain was not necessary and declined to set the alarm. Of course, I had plans to do 20-30k in the middle of the day. Alas, the best laid plans, etc etc. TA and I went shopping after church and got all excited about new kitchen stuff (doesn't take much to excite us these days... :-) ), and that run never did eventuate. Ah well, this coming week is a scheduled down week, so I guess I just started it a day early!

Gnome

p.s. congrats to lean, mean running machines Owlly and Johnny Dark for inflicing severe damage on long-standing pbs. Just great stuff! :-)