Shamrock Shuffle

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Today seems like as good of a day as any to talk about my next race – the Bank of America Shamrock Shuffle. This race really kicks off the running season in Chicago, since it’s usually the first race of the year.

This year I was hoping to beat my time from last year of 33:24 – my first time under 34:00. Unfortunately, since the Marathon in October, my training has been lacking. And now that I’ve been running for a few weeks, my knee has been acting up so I’ve had to take it slow. I haven’t done more than 4.5 miles since December, and haven’t done any speed work. At this point, I’ll be lucky to run under 35:00 this year.

The other decision I need to make is whether or not to run a 10K the weekend before the Shamrock Shuffle. I would really like to run it, but don’t want to overdo it and hurt my knee before the Shamrock Shuffle. I have until the 31st to decide if I want to run it, so I think I’ll just wait and see how everything is going in a week or so, and maybe just do it as a training run.

I hope to start posting on here more frequently now that I’m back into running, so until then.