a week off and then a race

I took the entire week off from training and exercise. The first few days after the Honu Half Ironman I was pretty sore.

This morning I went to Hilo to run in the Hawaii Road Runner Club's 5k race from Coconut Island to the singing bridge and back again. The race went pretty well for me, but after a week of sloth and not nearly enough stretching the IT band on my right leg was tight. At about the halfway point in the race I started getting the knee pain that this causes. Overall I finished the race 6th out of about 40 or so participants and ran it in 20 minutes 24 seconds (i may have the seconds portion wrong). I had fun and after the race I caught up with some of my buddies and talked story.

Afterward I came home, ate some food and had a nice nap. And yes I did some stretching too. :)