Saturday, February 16, 2008

Signed up for Broad Street, 2008

I’m pleased to announce that I have, for the third year in a row, signed up for the Broad Street Run in Philadelphia.  I believe it’s my favorite run: 10 miles, totally flat, and great weather year after year.  There are usually around 15,000 people involved, but the bottlenecks at the start break up pretty quickly and you can fall into your groove about a mile in.

I posted a blog entry on my results from last year’s race.  I really ran the best race of my short career last year on Broad Street.  I’m actually wondering if I’ll be able to do anything close to that this year.  I think the conditions were superlative: the wind was at the runner’s back, the weather was perfect...just so many things went right on that day.  I should know, as I am no stranger to what can happen when things don’t go right.  If you also take into consideration that I was running Broad Street , 2007 one week after setting a new personal record in Nashville Country Music Half Marathon, it was even more of an anomalous performance.

I feel, however, that I’m the best shape of my life, and as the weather breaks, I’ll be starting to work on my Tempo runs in preparation to break my 2007 record.  If I break it by 10 seconds, I’m happy.