First of all -- congratulations bloggers on your great races yesterday!! And to Deena Kaster, Magdalena Lewy-Boulet and Blake Russell - what an amazing race. I had picked 1st and 3rd correctly, but I had Kate O'Neill for 2nd -- what an amazing PR for Lewy-Boulet (nearly 12 mins faster than her qualifying time!).
1:36:17 (8:01 average)
Wow ... what a windy day. We got a late start because I had to work until noon, and then we drove from Park City to the Jordan River Parkway for our run. The wind was about 10 mph with gusts up to 24 mph (according to weather underground). Today's run was a 3rds progression run. I was supposed to run the first 4 miles at an easy pace, with the middle 4 miles moderately hard and then the last 4 miles were supposed to be at marathon pace or slightly faster (about steady state pace). I don't know what got into me, my 4 mile splits were 34:27 (8:36 ave pace), 32:02 (8:00 ave pace) and 30:46 (7:41 ave pace). With the wind I really could not judge my pace well, and think I ran most of this run much faster than I was supposed to ... but, I finished strong (Dean said he had a hard time catching me -- he ran 14), so I hope it wasn't "too" much harder than I should have. It really tested my mental fortitude - I had to really concentrate the whole way (at one point the wind actually blew me sideways off of the path). Plus, I was pretty mentally beat today - the weekend was not very relaxing - despite a really nice suite! Hope you all are enjoying your Sunday!
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