Saturday’s race will be a 5k cross country run at Bells Mill Park in Chesapeake in honor of Ed Lowery, a local coach who lost his battle with cancer last year. I’m not expecting a fast time and will just treat it as an intense tempo effort. The XC 5k will be my 28th race of the year and puts me in a great position to hit my goal of 50 races in 2009.
It will also be the last race before a 5 or 6 day break to prepare myself for Richmond Marathon training which begins on July 6th. It’s been a tough, but enjoyable six months, and I’m sure the short period of down time will do me nothing but the world of good, both physically and mentally.
Should be a fun race on the rolling Bells Mill course. Note to self: definitely need to find my Nike spikes before Saturday morning rolls around…
Sounds like a great race.