03/02/2012 - Interns vs Steven

Yes, I lost.  Shut up.

My senior was messing with the interns.  She challenged one to race me finishing some work.  This turned into me racing four interns.  This turned into a physical race.  This turned into lets do a relay.  This turned into a 1.25 mile steven 1.00 mile intern handicap.

This turned into a company event with 50+ onlookers.  I lost by about 5 seconds.  Unbelievable.  Should have trained.  Unbelievable.  The partners are talking about making "The Race" into an annual event.

03/11/2012 - The 408k (4.97 miles)

I started a running club at work and we ran our first race together this past weekend in San Jose.  The San Jose 408k sold out at 3,000 participants - a lot larger than I expected.

For the past couple months I've been working out 9 times per week, but it's a mixture of different cardio (not all running) and weight training.  I was not training specifically for this race, but now I kind of wish that I did.

I didn't get to the race late, but I also didn't get there early.  As a result I ended up starting towards the back and it was really hard to weave through all the slow people.  As a result, my first mile ended up being 7:40 which is a lot slower than I would have liked.  (My overall pace ended up being a 6:32/mile)

I think that my peak for a race this distance would probably be around 6:00/mile if I trained for it - I would have got 15th place.

Don't get me wrong - I still had a great time at the race, but situations like these make me wonder about potential.  I want to run twice per day for a month and see how well I can do in a race.  Could be a goal for the future!

Sidenote:  I played in a basketball game after the race in this league with my best friends.  The other team had a guy that was like 6'4, 350.  At one point I ran into him and it knocked the wind out of me.  I don't think he even noticed that I ran into him.  Sigh.

Sidenote 2:  My running club is all girls.  We have one other guy besides me.  I feel like all the people I work with are female.  The other day we went to lunch and it was me, 16 girls, and a gay guy.