New Zealand finally made the announcement and I have made the Team for the World Cross Country Champs in Spain, March 20th.
Now that the team has been announced I have made a few changes to the season, instead of doing more indoor races, will focus on getting some hard solid work outs in and race a 5k on the road closer to the championships.
So I had a good month of solid training, long runs on the hills at River Road and long solid work outs as best I could with the winter we were having.
I found the race that I wanted to do for the last hard effort. New York Road Runners have a race in the City, Coogans Salsa, Blues and Shamrocks 5k
The weather has slowly been warming up, but unfortunately this morning of the race was windy and raining, though at least it wasn't too cold. It was also a little hilly, out and back loop.
The competition in this race was kinda tough, the guys is pretty tight one and the girls is also won in a pretty decent time. So I started out and picked my way through the guys and girls, until I realized I was the girl in the lead. From then on I was working with the guys that were around me. I had a group to keep pulling me through and pushing me over the final hill. With a nice long downhill finish I came away with the win in 16.34, equalling my Road PB, but this was by far a harder course then when I ran this time in the pass.
Now its just a matter of getting through the next two weeks healthy and safe and arrive in Spain to have some relaxing running before the race March 20th!
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