Dog Town half course. Started out running from my house over to the park where the race finishes. Got there a little early so I looped around a little more before everyone else showed. Hit 3.4 miles before we drove up. I didn't save these miles so I'm not sure on their pace but I'm guessing pretty slow as I felt really crusty early on this morning. 16.7 miles from the start of the half course up in Coral Canyon down the course then extended at the end around that neighborhood and back to my house. 6:40 avg on this section. Ran with Stephen, Billy, Dustin and Scott at the start. There was about 25 total runners. Once we got down in the Hell's hole canyon Steve wanted to do a 5 or so mile tempo. I didn't have any goals at all for pace and so I just stayed by Steve over to Washington Dam road. We hit around 6:00 pace for a couple then once on the Dam road I picked it up a little and hit 5:30ish pace for a couple. Then I backed off going up the hill in the fields and Steve caught back up. We just ran smooth and EZ from there until Majestic Dr. and there's a big steep hill there. Steve's hammy started to tighten and we really slowed down for a couple miles or so over past the farm. I knew I had to get going so I finally told Steve that I was going to pick it up and finish off the run. Finished off from there back home at around 6:15 pace. Felt pretty good for the last 10 miles. The first 10 I was super tight and the groin pain was at around a 7 again. Glad to finish the week off strong. Could have bagged it around Tues or Wed's when the pain and fatigue really started to creep in. But I just kept pressing on... hopefully these lyrics are true:" N-n-now that- that don't kill you can only make you stronger".
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