Post-10K

Well, this morning's 10K went considerably better than I had expected. I was hoping (but not quite expecting) to make a time goal of 1:05 ... but I actually finished in 1:02:27. It was a lovely morning for a run ... brightly sunny, and at the 8 AM hour of the race, a pleasant temperature in the low sixties. And I was very glad to have been psychologically ready for the final tough mile ... uphill, on Maple Road, and the race director, in email to me, nicknamed it the Maple Monster. Leading up to it, I was thinking of it as the "hill of Hell" ... but, being so ready for it, I found it to be not quite as daunting as I had expected. I even passed some people on it (doubtless unwary souls who were not expecting it). Now, the next 10K I run (perhaps in the fall?), I'll hope to break an hour.