3rd Time Was A Charm

  If you follow me at my Face Book Page you know by now that I won Masters at this years UDT/SEAL Museum 5K on Sat. Nov.9!

   3 weeks in a row of competition, 3 weeks in a row winning my age group ( Run To Row 5K on my Bday) or even better winning Masters 2 weeks in a row ( Honor Flight 5K and now Muster). My time each week decreased ( 23:24 in Run To Row, 22:36 in Honor Flight and 21:32 at Muster!). My only disappointment at Muster was I was #14 overall. Still out of 180 + people I guess I shouldn't complain.

   You better believe I trained hard for this race especially. I'll tell you about that in a future post. Meanwhile, my next race is a triathlon suppose. It's a bridge-swim-run also being held by the UDT/SEAL Museum. It's at the Barber Bridge in Vero Beach. It's about a 100 meter swim, then we climb up a 65 foot caving ladder , grab a flag midway, then when we get on the bridge we run 1 lap ( about a mile ), then fast rope down, part way down click the flag onto the rope, and swim back! By the way, we'll be wearing shirts, jeans/pants, and boots along with a helmet and harness for safety obviously.

  I don't have access to a rope, let alone a rope ladder so I just have to focus on pull ups. I've done very little swimming lately but it's a short swim anyway. I'll probably use side stroke or breast stroke. I'll have to really go for it at the run. But all areas I'm going to give it my all.

  This is an example of taking on new challenges, keeping your motivation up, staying hungry. Wish me luck.

Fight It Back

 That was a song from the German band Accept. But in this case I meant age, specifically mine!

 For 2 Fridays in a row now, I've competed in 5k's. Last Friday I celebrated my birthday by running the Run To Row 5k at the Treasure Coast Rowing Club in Palm City ( I'll leave it to you to guess my age. Talking about Accept and listening to Iron Maiden as I write this should give you an idea). I ran it in 23:24, won my age group, and came in 9th overall. Oh, and it was my first race of 2013.

  And tonight I ran in the first Honor Flight 5k at Witham Field in Stuart. It was for a great cause, all the proceeds going towards getting World War II veterans to the WW II Memorial in Washington, D.C. Both these races have been in the evening, Run To Row at 7 pm and tonight's at 5:45. I barely made it on time, got a small warm up in, and had eaten ( although that was 4 1/2 hours earlier ). Despite that, I finished in 22:36, won Masters, and came in 4th overall! Plus I got this big trophy/light!

I won't lie, it was tough. And I didn't do as good as I'd have liked. And next Saturday comes my favorite, and toughest, the Navy UDT/SEAL Museum 5k. God knows what can and will happen.


 Despite the different obstacles, I think I showed that proper training along with the right mindset can take you to new heights.