5150

What do you do when you don't reach the goal you set for yourself?  Easy! Raise the bar and give it another shot, of course!  Logically, that makes absolutely no sense. That's a case of the 5150.

I've had a few days to think about how the Marathon got me.  Should I have done things different, should I have been doing other things training, or was it just a case of the heat.  I realize I could play those games all day and never really truly know.  Only way to continue to get better is run more.  The week following the Marathon last year, I could barely walk and was in no condition to run.  My legs feel good, then it just kind of hit me, there's a big race coming up, why not do it too?  A few seconds later, I was signed up for the Fifth Third River Bank 25K.

How does raising the bar factor in changing race distances?  As I was signing up, something caught my eye, there is something called the Under 2 Hour Club.  Special treatment, special area, sounds good to me.  Of course to get into this club, the year prior, you have to complete the race in under two hours. 

Fifteen and a half miles in two hours, is fast, but seems possible.  I'm so confident I can do it!  Then I started looking at all my training runs, races and every single run that's gone over that distance, I've never once been able to do it!  Ugh, what did I get myself into?  Granted on all those runs, I wasn't aiming for that goal, but still I'm kind of surprised that I've never accidentally pulled it off.  Marathon goal was 8 minute miles for 26.2, this will be about a 7:44 per mile pace for 15.5 miles, bar raised.

So what's 5150?  Well, I just learned this week that it's the police code for crazy person on the loose.  Bar raised, lets see what's possible.