First 10k Fun Run/Race of 2013 done and ......

Yesterday finally the Racing Season of 2013 had started, I really had looked forward to this , for several reasons first of all I really enjoy these Events secondly I wanted to see where I'am for my Half Marathon in not even 3 weeks time. I know that I don't have enough Mileage under my Belt to make the Half Marathon pretty but I'm rather stubborn as well.
So what have I learned from yesterdays Event, firstly that I don't really like to run on a Beach at 5 Degrees Celsius in the Rain, secondly that those 10km did hurt quite a bit more than I thought it would.
I did run those 10km hard , I wanted to do these even in those bad conditions in 70 min, it took me 75 min and I don't think I can blame the bad Weather for it.
 Also today my Legs are pretty much in bits, which they shouldn't,  it was "only" 10 km. Lets face it I see a lot of pain in my near future , especially on the Day of my Half Marathon

Guess have to adapt my Half Marathon Goal and get away from the Idea that I can do it in 2:30 hrs, I know this is really slow for loads of People for me that would be flying. I have to change my mindset, I still want to do the Race as fast as I can, but at the same time as safe as I can. I don't want to get injured the Season of 2013 just has started and I'm positively drooling looking at my upcoming Triathlon Races and there is also one Adventure Race in May and before that a Cycle around Ireland where I plan to do a couple of stages .
I want to those these things because I love to do them not to win anything.
Which reminds me, I need to get more cycling Kilometers into my legs, which is really tricky because the Weather has been bad for a while now.

Rather Bleak looking Beach for our 10k Race