Perfect race conditions today. I ran with John R for the first 8 miles, actually tagging along behind him since he had a clockwork pace dialed in. Just about dead on 5:43 pace all the way to 11 miles. Thanls John! The pace felt great so I kept it up through the half, at 1:15:50, I think. I took a wrong turn as the road does a 90 to the half point and added some distance, but only a block or so I think. I slowed down on the flat and rollers through the mid marathon since these have always killed me at Ogden. I was above 6 pace through here. When I reached the downhill I picked it back up to 5:45 which was good since I faded again on the last two miles to 6:15 pace. Pretty much alone for the whole race today except for running behind John at the start. This marathon felt the best of any I have ever run. Somehow not sore at all today. I got yelled at by two cops for running tangents. One actually drove on the side of me on his motorcycle through the winding part of the canyon and told me to get over on the coned section of the road. I had to or risk being DQ'd. This is the only annoying part of marathoning for me, courses through curvy canyons marked on tangents for distance that you are not allowed to run. (besides they are unusually long). My GPS showed .5 long today but that was in part to taking the wrong turn. | 