Today was the traditional day-before-the-race cruise and stretching session (for tomorrow's IBM 10K Classic). A fairly small crew gathered up at 7:45 am and did just over 4 miles, nice and easy, on the trail. We came in just at 39:00, for a relaxed 9:30 or so per mile. We had some fun early playing tag with a Austin Fit training group who was using walk breaks, but passed them for good by the middle of mile 2. The AT&T marathoners not running IBM tomorrow ran Scenic, and the Chicago peeps did some sort of 14-15 miler, so we didn't see much of them except for them passing by us in the last miles of their trip.
After knocking out some striders, we had the stretching session, and that was enjoyable. The weather was pretty nice unless you were running (humidity rears its ugly head again), and it was very pleasant out there on the grass stretching out all those aches and pains.
After a little post-stretch chatting, it was time to get going. For the day, the aforementioned 4.16 miles.
Tomorrow's 10K race goals? Not sure. I'd like to come in under 8:00/mile pace, as a minimum goal. Since I've never really done much at this race, it would be nice to put together a strong finish tomorrow. Masters PR is 47:52, 7:42/mile. Lifetime PR (that 30 year old guy again) is 46:25, 7:25/mile. We'll see how it goes. I'm not as sharp as I'd like to be for this, but it will give me a good baseline effort for the start of marathon training.
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