Downtown Core, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Distance: 21K
Time: 2:19:18
Pace: 10:15
Best Split: 8:46
Rank: 42/57
AG: 43.38%
Post race meal: Chocolate Milk, Iced Coffee and Blueberry Muffin from Tim Hortons
Comments: Some days you have it, some days you don't. Let's look at the positives: I finished... despite two injuries (IT Band and SI Joint Syndromes).
The highlight of the day was when my knee seemed to buckle from the IT band pain. Of course, sans a foam roller, I had to get by using my phone to release the IT band. That was not terribly pleasant, but it allowed me the ability to finish without destroying my knee.
(Luckily, as bad as my time was, it did not lead to my arrest.) After a circuitous route through Downtown Core, we wound down to Victoria Park and along the river. I ran a tad bit faster than I had planned to. Right around 5k is when my knee started to hurt, and my quads and hamstrings started to argue with me. The problem is basically this: because of the SI Joint point, I needed to have a hip adjustment (simple procedure... done several times). Because my hips adjusted and aligned properly, I'm now "burning different fibers of the same muscles." In English, I'm rebuilding my leg endurance. I'm not really able to do much about my muscles during a race, but my knee was another matter. As I mentioned before, I used my android phone (in lieu of a foam roller) to massage my IT band. The result was that the horrific/sharp pain that accompanies IT band syndrome was minimized. Alas, I would have to do this virtually every 1-3 kilometers, and that is what really killed my pace.
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