AM - 5 miles with Allie, James, Jake, Kassi, Dave, and the Weber crew (for a short time) on their cooldown of the Layton Classic race. Fun! Planning to walk/jog Alta Peruvian race this afternoon with as much compression gear on as possible.
PM - Alta Peruvian 8K! I decided to run this race in an attempt to get a free night at the Alta Peruvian for winter skiing (age division winners get free night). I was not willing to "race" because of the soreness horror stories and ruining my recovery, so I ended up not winning my age division. Still happy thought because I got a nice dinner for two at the lodge in the winter which will be great after a full day of backcountry skiing!
I knew that this was a ridiculously downhill course (1700ft in 5 miles!) but was still surprised as to how downhill it really was. Super uncomfortable for running and honestly not much fun. I ran at an 8 min pace effort for the race and that resulted in 6:08 pace with the downhill. Michelle Simonitis and I met up around mile 3 and ran the rest of it together chatting casually. At about mile 4, a huge storm came in that was quite scary - lightning and thunder way too close! That definitely made the race quite an experience. I am quite pleased with how great I felt on this run - no groin or adductor pain at all. Really tight compression helped a lot!
By far the best part of the race is the after-party. There is a great BBQ with tons of food, a nice band, hot tub, and great company. This made the race totally worth it! Jake and I stayed the night up there with several others and really enjoyed ourselves.
I am sad that this is the last year of the race, but Rob and Jake are really working to transform this into a 1 MILE downhill dash. Hopefully they can make that happen!!
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