I finally get to blog my race! To start off I just have to say my official time was 1:14:17 but it should have been something like 1:13:55 or something. I'll explain why below.
1 mile early at the lodge before going to the bus. 2 mile warm-up at the start with the blogging gang.
The weather turned out to be better up at the start then we had thought the day before. As the race started my goal was to be semi conservative at first and then work into the race. Here's the play-by-play.
1. 5:23- just working into the race. After the dust settles I'm sitting in 6th place as the guys ahead of me take off a little faster than I'd planned on going out.
2. 5:26- 6th place and just moving down the canyon
3. 5:26- Same position all the way to 7 miles. The downhill here really isn't that fast.
4. 5:30- Feeling good but not as smooth as I should be. So I start trying to relax and breath deeper.
5. 5:30- Same
6. 5:29- Getting close to the turn and running down the same road as my 1st leg of Wasatch Back!
7. 5:42- We make the turn here and start fighting the WIND and the rollie pollies...
8. 5:40- I pass the guy in front of me as he looks to be pretty much done.
9. 5:50- At mile marker 9 I look at my watch and still feel like I can finish pretty strong. So I want to make it to mile 10 around 55 min's or so... but this is the start of the horrible miles and the wind starts to beat me down to the earth.
10. 5:49- Just hating it and working for every step.
11. 6:06- A long uphill along with hard wind in the face. This sucked because my goal is to have all race miles under 6 min's this year and well... that didn't happen.
12. 5:57- Along here in some spot Steve A. took a (wrong) left hand turn and at that point I'm about 45 seconds-1 min behind him. As I come through the intersection I see him going the wrong way and I keep going the right way... but I start to second guess myself and so I turn around and run back through the intersection to where I can see the sign that was pointing out the right way to go. I was in fact going the right way to begin with and ended up costing myself 20 seconds+ and a 1:13 something. Anyways that was the part I was to explain from the top.
13. 5:55- Really trying to finish hard now after the screw up but I'm not going very fast.
.1 32 seconds or 5:10 pace for the last tenth.
So overall not too bad. I really wish I woudn't have turned around so there was no question about my time. The conditions were bad I guess. I mean the first 6.6 was fine... a little cold for me at around 35 degrees. Then from the turn in the wind just sucked the life out of all of us. The best part about it was that I got to see the Ogden course and prepare my mind for that race. Also today was a good workout to prepare for upcoming races.
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