Ran the Lake to Lake Relay today with Dave, Dustin, Billy, and Stephen. Our little team ended up winning so that was fun but it was just some good memories in the van all day with the lads. Leg 5- 4.1 miles from Tonoquint park up over the hill and down into Bloomington. First 2 miles are basically flat then 3rd mile is up hill and the 4th mile is basically all down hill. Hit a 5:20 avg on this leg. Got out fast with a 5:09 opening mile and though I'd blow up later but the body answered every time I wanted to push. Felt pretty good until about .5 from the finish and then I started to dry heave the GU I'd taken before the leg. Leg 10- 6.7 miles. Like last year I got to run the final leg. This year it took a left and looped all the way around Sand Hollow res. First mile was half up half down, second mile was flat, third mile had a big hill (up the dam) and the rest of the leg was all flatish with a few rollers. But from mile 1.8 it turned to washboard dirt road. Anyways before I even started this leg we had a big lead on the rest of the field... So I kind of didn't want to push it. Decided to start EZ and kind of do a progressive tempo. But it all ended up being at around Tinman pace. Hit a 5:50 avg for this leg. Was happy at the end because I kind of got a little push but didn't have to kill it to win like last year. Plus I really tried to hammer the first leg and wouldn't have had much more anyways if I wanted to have pushed the second leg. It was a great day and unlike last year we didn't have pounding winds to deal with so it was very nice to be outside and almost everyone who ran the relay got a fresh sun burn. Only got in 4.2 miles of warm up and cool down in. Actually took my time too much before the second leg and didn't even get a warm up in because here came a Stephen (ask him about his 3rd leg today).
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