Hermes 10 Miler - No Drama

The race this weekend went really well. Our goal was to run the race in 1 hour 40 minutes, and we beat our goal and ran it fast in 1 hour 38 minutes. The weather was: beautiful clear skies, a slight breeze, and the sun shining down. But as soon as we started running it seemed so hot (it was about 80 degrees). The race was mostly flat, and I really enjoyed the course. There were water stops at every two miles which very nice, we grabbed some water at every spot because of the extreme heat. (There were also some yards with sprinklers going and I made sure to run through every sprinkler on the course.) It was nice to have the boys cheering us on, the green shirted boys, Zack and Corey handed us off our Luna moons at mile 7. Woo Hoo - Only 3 miles to go. The last 2 miles of the race were very hard for us, our lungs and legs were becoming very sluggish very fast! We stayed strong and consistent with our pace and we were able to pass other racers throughout the whole race. I'm proud of us that we were able to start slow, instead of going out to fast! I think that’s what made this race so steady. We finished pretty strong (even thought we may have exchanged some words at mile 9.5, Lisa said "I am not having fun" followed by myself who said " this is not fun at all") and ran the whole race at a steady 9:51 minutes per mile. This race definitely brought our confidence up for the half marathon in 20 days! One more long training run this weekend, and then we taper. I think all this hard training is going to pay off on May 17th! (fingers crossed)