I'm glad I got another PR for the half marathon my training is just getting better and better. This course was a lot harder then I thought it would be. The first 5 miles wasn't a straight downhill like I thought it had rolling downhill. Then after mile 5 I felt like I was working hard the rest of the race to keep up with the rolling course. Miles 9 and 10 had a really good uphill. Then I tried my best to race in the finish after that. I couldn't ever get into a steady rhythm. My splits are kind of all over the place not the smartest race. I wasn't trying to push hard at the start I was going by feel. But with the course being up and down this is what I ended up with. 6:01, 6:10, 6:12, 5:58, 6:19, 6:24, 6:36, 6:14, 6:35, 7:11, 6:43, 6:47, 6:32.
The reason I went down and did this race was because it was part of this triple crown series that this law firm, 1law,was advertising. They were offering $1,000 to overall male and female winners, who had run snow canyon half, st. george half, and dogtown half. They were going to base it off of how you placed in each race. I wasn't going to be the overall female winner but I knew I would be second. So I had been emailing this guy in charge of it and asking if second place of the triple crown was getting money. He did email me back about a week ago that "I could get $100-$200." So we decided to come down, race and see. Turns out they didn't give the money out they had originally advertised. Ben VanBeekum was the overall male winner of the triple crown and they gave him $250. A little less then the grand they said orginally. I came away with nothing. But after the efforts of Spencer Simpson and Nikki VanBeekum things got straightened out a little more and Ben ended up with $350 and I got the $100 I was promised in an email after the guy pulled up his email and saw that's what he had said to me. Poor Ben still didn't get the oringinal money he was told by the people working for 1law though. Hopefully that group will be more organized next year.
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