Pretty good race for me, I wish now looking back at my split I would have been faster/mentally stronger at the end but I am happy. A pr for me so can't be to disapointed.
Warmed up with Michelle and James 2 miles, got to the start at it was about to start and we still had to get rid of our warmups. Started the race and could really only see about 20 people up ahead of me, not bad. The first 3.2 are a really fast downhill and then it flatens out on the river trail and is a very gental downhill.
1-6:18
2-6:32
3-6:26 feeling really good with this
4-6:36 flattens out here and this usually kills me but I still felt good
5-6:41
6-6:35 (39:08 faster than the tempo I did a couple of weeks ago) feeling pretty good still
7-6:38
8-6:55 I guess this is where I started to struggle or lose focus because I wasn't that tired
9-6:57 now I am starting to get tired just want to keep the pace under 7's
10-6:55 (1:06:33)
Course measure .1 long for me did that in 31 sec. See why looking back I should have pushed alittle more, I really think I could have but stayed under 7's so happy about that and I can tell the training is paying off.
Cooled down with amazing Michelle (1st place overall womens) and easy 5. We ran back to run her hubby in and yelled at him like no tomorrow to pick it up and he responded well we got him in under 1:20. |