Desert Chiva Running

9am- Dog Town Half

So today was good. I had a good race despite the fact that nobody was handing me little paper cups of water all the time. I rode the bus right behind Aaron Metler and that was cool but I was all alone for the ride cuz Nick and Cam sat together and nobody else wanted to sit by me. I saw a dead cat and also a dead rabbit in the road on the way over. We warmed up like 5 minutes and then listened to some hardcore rap to psych myself in. The first couple miles were good and I was going like 423 pace according to my watch. The leaders were pretty far in head and I was in a pack with Prston Andrew Kade and some other fast guy. On the detour in the neighborhoods I got some random knee pain and fell off that group. I was really worried about my knee because I was only like 3 miles in but after like 400 meters I was fine so whatever. I was feeling pretty good and in a nice rythym and I was kind of expecting Jake to catch up to me so I could run with him but he didnt catch up so I was all alone. I passed Kade going down through the canyon of coral and I was quite surprised that he had lasted that long with those guys. On the way down to the Hell Hole I could see Preston and the other guy had broken away from Andrew and all the way through the Hell Hole I was reeling Andrew in. I caught up to him at the boardwalk and we ran together untill after Sullivan Park where my dad got me some water then I broke away from him and never saw him again. I settled into a good fast pace and then my dad got me some more water. Coach came and talked to me right before the hill by Jakes house. He told me that I could catch the guys in front of me just keep it rolling up the hill and kill it on the downhill. So thats what I did. But the guys in front of me were not as weak as I would have liked which was unfortunate. The last couple miles I just focused on making my strides longer and faster untill the finish. Winning my age group was fun and I beat my time from last year by like 8 minutes. It was real fun. But yeah half marathons make me way tired.