2:04:20 (1:05:15/59:05). Because summer is really here now I had to get up at 5 to get this run in before it got too hot. It was still about 85F when I started, but at least it wasn't fully sunny yet, so it felt pretty good. It was 97F when I finished, it did feel hot, but I was just happy to finally be running long again so I enjoyed it. Well, plus I knew we were leaving for Flagstaff so I would not have to endure it for the next 4 weeks (even if I go to Fort Collins during this time it is much cooler there). We had a very uneventful drive, no real traffic and we made good time. It is so funny to have it 108F when you leave and then a beautiful, cool 84F after just 4 brief hours of driving!! Our house, for the next month, is very nice, and a huge 5 acre field from Greg McMillan, it is going to be a FUN month!! Track was GREAT this weekend!!! Galen Rupp had a spectacular 10K run for the championship win (Teg and Scotty Bauhs rounding out the team). It was a slow, tactical race with almost everyone in the race having the A standard, Rupp had an incredible last 800 meters, just shaking everyone else with a 4:07 last mile (1:52.5 last 800!!!!). Shalane Flanagan dominated the women's race from the gun, with Kara Goucher close-by, and Jen Rhines added another Championship podium to her impressive record. The mens 1500 was SO slow, that the women had a faster split through the first 800!!!! But it was an impressive last 400m by Matt Centrowitz a 21 year old college student from Oregon over Bernard Lagat! The women's race was really exciting, especially since Christine Wurth-Thomas just blasted through the first 400 in 62.1!!! Holy Cow, the first 800 was 2:08! in the last lap Morgan Uceny just hit the gas pedal and gunned it for the win, Wurth-Thomas ended up in 4th, which I for one was really disappointed, she MADE the race, and just got out-kicked by the fresher runners the last lap (there is likely a lesson in there somewhere for all of us who tend to go out fast thinking we can "bank" time). I loved the men and women's 5K too ... they were fast races with Molly Huddle (current US record holder) the obvious winner on the women's side and Bernard Lagat (the stud) as the men's. The men's race was more "thrilling" as it came down to the wire, and there were several guys that could have won that race (not quite as close as the men's 10K though). Solinsky was working with Teg and kept the pace pretty honest through the last 3K -- and despite his tired legs from the night before Galen Rupp took 3rd. Results are here ... I can't wait for the World Champs in Daegu, we are sending a GREAT team!! Happy Sunday bloggers! I also can't wait until this week -- it will be so nice to run in the cool weather again!! | 