DOGTOWN HALF MARATHON
Going to make this nice and simple. 3rd race of the TRIPLE CROWN presented by 1LAW. Headed down to STG because the 1Law stated that they were going to give out 1,000 to the overall circuit winner. Thought it was a good opportunity to win some money. Anyway story at the end of the report.
Hitched a ride up to the start with spencer simpson and Amy Cook. Warmed for about 2.5 miles and threw in 2 strides with Spencer and headed to the start. Talked to some guys from the STG running team and got focused and began the race.
Talked to Aaron Metler for the 1st mile and we wanted to work together for a bit and go with the flow. Aaron was shooting for 1:07 and I was hoping sub 1:09, but the course ended up being a little bit more challenging then we thought. So anyway by mile 2 Aaron and I were all alone and still running side by side. We hit a dirt trail around mile 3 and was way careful threw there so no ankles were sprained. By mile 4 we were running threw hell hole canyon just a gorgeous ravine that led down to the river bottom. At mile 4 Aaron put 4 seconds on me and it stayed that way til about mile 6. He then opened another gap and had about 15 or so on me through 8. But at miles 8-9 I had a good couple miles and closed again and got 6 seconds behind him, now I was sensing that this was going to be a race if I could muster a solid mile 10 up a beast of a hill. I ended up hitting 5:53 and talking to Aaron he was about 5:30 so he put about 30 seconds total gap on me and opened about another 15 on the downhill through mile 11-12. I tried to get back some time but was running out of distance around mile 12 the race was won. There is a turn around spot just past mile 12 and I saw Aaron coming back at me. I gave him a high 5 and told him congrats! From there I ran in off of feel and came a little short of my sub 1:09. But not dissapointed because it was very challenging and I gave it my best.
So the story of the 1Law. At the awards I was supposed to get $1,000 for winning the series. The guy at the awards announced the winners and prize money was $250. Now I dont want to sound ungrateful because anything helps. But I was mad, spent alot of money on travel and time for this and they back tracked on everything that was promised. The owner of 1Law kept telling everyone he nevered stated 1,000 and I should be grateful for what I got. Anyways not to vent alot. My wife and spencer got 100 more out of the guy and Amy Cook got $100 after the guy wasnt going to give her anything. Just frustrating with the overall outcome.
Anyways great race will do it again for sure.
Here are my splits: 5:15; 5:04; 5:10; 5:01; 5:16; 5:26; 5:27; 5:09; 5:27; 5:53; 5:22; 5:33; 5:18 and .10 was 4:57 pace.
Good pictures from STG running center     
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