I had no intention of running this on Saturday morning. After C's 8:00 AM soccer game, I got home, new I needed to run and remebered this race started at 10:00. It was 9:30, I threw on my gear, grabbed the headphones, drove to the start, put $25.00 in my pocket, jogged to the start line and we were off.
I ran this last year and remebered the first 2 miles being tough, climbing about 1500 ft on gravel road and some nice single track toward the top. Chili isn't my best pre-race dinner and my legs felt heavy from the 3 Malan's runs and 2 harder efforts through the previous week, but it was good to be pushing a bit and trying to keep up with some of the local fast guys.
I hung on up the climb, but didn't have the downhill legs this morning and a few guys pulled away. I held my place to the finish, gave Oreo, who was volunteering, some love, handed HD the $25.00 in my pocket and aplogized for not registering. Overall, a pretty hard effort on tired legs. Good to hang out a bit at the finish, talk with some old friends, and watch people finish, Gdoc came in looking strong!
Corey and I ran back over to the start, mostly goofed off, foraged for food and swept the course for Clay and HD. Corey ended up runnig the last 3 miles with a 5 gallon bucket full of grub, and I had 3 orange road cones, some mileage signs, and a pocket full of flags by the time we hit the start area. Good times.
11 miles total, 3200 vert or so.
Race: 5.6 miles 48:00 minutes (and change??) 1700 vert, 8:30 pace.
Week: 38 miles, 5000 vert or so, 3 hardish runs. Monday, teusday, saturday. | 