Well, the Saturday was about as good as I had planned; had a planned cheat 1/2 day with my eating, got in a weight workout and got some work done.  This is hopefully the last working weekend for a long, long time.

Sunday I had planned on getting a lot of yard work done, doing some shopping and going for a run.  It pretty heavily rained until about 1:30, so that got me out of doing the yard work, and at about 2:30 (after a long internal debate), I put on my running shoes, all of my wonderful running gadgets and got my butt outside.  In my training schedule, this was my 4-week-to-go 5K test run, so I was hoping to keep a 5:00 per KM pace to see if I am on pace for a 25 min 5K in September; I was hoping for at least a 25:30 to make sure I was on pace.  I decided to just run what I thought was a decent pace and take a look at my time at the half distance mark (I have this run all mapped out in terms of each KM mark).  At the halfway point, I looked at my time and I’m at a 4:30 per KM pace.  What the…?!?!  Feeling somewhat encouraged and very tired I managed to keep going for the 5 KM with a small drop in my pace after the 3KM mark.

I completed my test 5K in 23:00 and, considering that my previous PR was 25:55, I was pretty darn impressed with myself.  Now I just need to be able to do that when it counts!  I’m thinking I may now aim for a sub-23 5K during my race which will hopefully have me finish in the top half of my age group.

I’m looking forward to the training the next for weeks and hopefully the hard work will pay off.