I think this was the race time, no watch today. I was not sure about running this race after the marathon last week but I thought that I felt pretty strong and I knew everybody would sleep in at the house so I might as well go run. I did a three mile warm up and my legs were pretty sore. It was probably from my tempo run Thursday, but as we got into the race I just had a pretty dead set of legs! The race goes straight up the canyon for 3 miles and then comes down and it was a long three miles, right into the morning canyon wind. I thought we were doing 8 minute miles going up but Conner had a GPS and at the end he said they were 6:30s. It was great going down but I just couldn't get that soreness out of the legs. Not even close to Conner. I even asked him to go slow today since I was tired and he obviously didn't listen.
As usual it was a lot of fun talking to all the locals and FRB folks after the race. Scott, Keith and Dave ran great races today. When I got home everyone was still asleep so no family time lost for running, that's a bonus!
Spent the afternoon waterskiing and buzzing fishermen with the boat at Newton Dam. |