travels, races, and other musings

This is a long overdue race report for two recent running races. I started writing this, actually, right after the IBM 10k, but then I started writing something else timely and then I didn't finish that other entry because I was writing something else, etc. Things just kept coming up. Anyway... IBM 10k  This year was the third time I've run the IBM 10k. The first time I ran it was in October 2007, not long after I was (unknowingly) pregnant. Granted, I wasn't very pregnant, but I was already feeling tired and nauseated and had a crappy race. I thought I was still recovering from the Longhorn Half Ironman and maybe that was part of it. I never wrote a race report because I was so ashamed of my 1:03:42 time. Ha! Perspective! So then the following year (2008) Emmaline was born and I didn't run it because it was too soon, but I did run it last year. And 2009 me laughed at 2007 me for thinking 1:03:42 was a bad time. I ran it in 1:06:47 and again, didn't write a rac