Have a little faith

An afternoon tempo run up to the Eastwood tanks: 2.1 miles ~ 17.5 minutes.  Back home in 32:00. Turned off the watch and went over to Palisades.  It was 50-degrees and I was warm in my shorts and a long sleeve shirt and gloves. No hat thankfully. I could have had on a short sleeve shirt. Gloves were nice.

Up to Neff's Canyon and back. Nice clear morning. Feeling refreshed and ready for an awsome run this Saturday in Las Vegas at the Red Rock Canyon state park.

Ran a couple miles before catching the plane, checking out which shoes to run in. I elected the DS Trainer over the Nike Lunaracer, for comfort reasons. My feet were fine.

Temps were a little cool to start, and I decided to run in a short sleeve shirt rather than my tank top. This was a decision that I kind of regretted after only a couple miles, but the shirt worked well. It carried it along for a few miles at the end when temps started to climb. My goal was to be under 3:40. In three previous runs, I've never gotten below 3:37. I thought if things went well, I could hit the BQ time of 3:35. And by mile 23, I knew it would be close, realizing my under 3:40 was certainly likely, but not absolutely certain about the 3:35.  But, I laid it down and pushed hard, hitting 7:15 MPM the last three.  Because of the fast finish, I really feel good about the run, and finished 17 seconds ahead of another 50 year old man, whom I don't know whether I passed or simply was just inside the chip time. The line to the johns was long at the start, so some probably just started late by the clock. A woman passed me in the first 2 miles, and I never saw her again. But I ended up finishing 3 minutes ahead of her time. So, the half marathon group of runners confuses the field of marathoners, but I like it that way. With them, you don't know if your passing half marathoners or marathoners, so it takes out some of that competitive foolishness.