Boston -114 -- Sat. Dec. 26

Boxing day, reasons to celebrate, but this didn't pan out very well. Got up okay on a pretty frigid day and headed to Bill's to give him a ride to the Snowstorm 10K. Arrived in time to get nearly two miles of warm-up, but probably not enough (1.79 sez GPS). Nice group, not too large, and the start was fairly easy (Bill started fast, then moved to the head and eventually won the whole thing!) -- I could see the leaders and I felt I was being a bit restrained. By mile two was ahead of Billy R, but he didn't let go. As we finished mile 3, I could just sense the numbleg approaching, so when he came up on me I didn't push back very hard. As we approached the reentry point to the park I was totally numb, and had to stop, pretty much falling over as I did. Massaged it a bit, then started off again, just muscling my way ahead by balancing with other parts and the other leg. Managed to keep a 7:20 ish pace for two miles, then with one to go I pushed a bit and got a sub-7 for the last mile; ended up thus:

Time: 42:21 (42:19 GPS)
Distance: 6.2 miles (6.34 GPS)
Pace: 6:50

Then after the run Bill and I took off for my standyby cooldown run, adding another 2.8 miles or so (2.67 sez GPS), me full of frustration but at least with sensation in the leg again.

Comment: So I got my weekly mileage up this week, but the cost to my back/ongoing training is yet to be figured out. Must concentrate on miles not races from now, until I'm more comfortable again and up at 50 or so miles per week
The reason I can't give full details is that I then managed to leave behind my GPS, hat and gloves -- arg!! (ETA -- now retrieved and added)

(Fortunately a club member picked them up and will bring them to the next run... but I was worried for a couple of days, and even drove back to the park in the afternoon, but couldn't access the building. . .)