5k Race report

This past Sunday I finally ran the race I was training for and it was amazing. But a little correction first, I posted a few weeks ago that I was going to try to do this in 20 minutes, I screwed, I was gonna write 25 minutes, one day I'll try run it at 20 minutes, but that's a little too fast for me right now.

Officially I was the 89th in the race and 11th in my category (30-39 years old) out of more than 2000 runners, and my official time was 24:16 minutes.

So, to be able to run at this speed and this time I trained since August, just after I came back from vacations, in which I finished another training program I had (10k in 55 minutes). For the 10k program I was running 5 or 6 times a week, it was hard and tiring, but it was easier than this other program.

I read that the key to be able to run faster is to do some strength training, not just running, so instead of running 6 times and between 40 and 55 km per week, I got a program to run 5 times per week and started lifting weights and doing strength training 3 times a week.

I was never interested in that kind of workout, but now I kinda like it, I felt the change quickly and I feel that it is amazing for my back, it hurts less when I have long runs and I feel like I have a better posture now. The only downside is that I felt the burnout just two weeks before the race, so I had to rest a little, and now that I finished, I decided to take a week to rest and start fresher my next goal... which I'm still not sure what it is.

Right now I feel like going easy until January, try to build more strength and run for fun. But knowing me, I'll might start a new program next week... and I know I can't just take it easy... not on this season... at least I need to balance all the food I'll eat next time I go to Juarez and the posada at work... and the tamales I ate last week... and... whatever I decided to cook for myself on new years eve...

Same race on November 2013 (10k)