My second-to-last race of the season is coming up this weekend, and I’m pretty excited! I’m flying down to the middle-of-nowhere Mexico for the last World Cup of 2008. “Middle-of-nowhere” isn’t even an exaggeration – the city of Huatulco, Mexico is definitely hard to get to for a major international race. I, for one, will be flying into Huatulco on an airplane called a “Fokker 100” which sounds just great. Here’s a map:
Huatulco is a Mexican tourist development in the southern state of Oaxaca. The Mexican government agency FONATUR (Fondo Nacional de Turismo) acquired the area that is now Huatulco back in 1984 to develop it into a tourist area similar to Cancun or Ixtapa. A major difference is that, unlike Cancun and Ixtapa, FONATUR decided to put in adequate waste water management before development started. This is good because development in Huatulco isn’t scheduled to finish until 2020 and I do plan on using the restroom this weekend.
I was pretty worried about my fitness after Scott Tinley’s as I got a bit sick and couldn’t finish workouts. But I’m better now and I ran in a local 5 mile road race this past weekend and had a decent showing. I ran strong with the leaders for 4 miles before getting my doors blown off in the last mile, but I had a PR by 2.5 minutes at 26:01 (I last ran a 5 miler in 2005 and yes, I run a lot faster now!). Anyways, it seems I’m ready to tackle this last race.
Mile 4.9999 of the 5 miler.