.6 mile warm up- not really to warm up but to keep from shivering. It felt cold up at the start.... but then .5 miles down the road warm air moved in and we all felt it get really hot. It was called a 30k but the distance ended up being 17.84 so... a little short of the 18.64 official 30 k distance. I didn't care. I didn't go to this race to race or do anything official. Just a good excuse to get a long run in with some faster miles mixed. The plan was to warm up for the first 5 miles or so then try and do some kind of tempo to the finish. The plan worked for 2ish miles hitting 6:17, 6:12 on the first two. But then Steven kept pushing the gas and we hit the 3rd mile in 5:48 and it started a rush of faster miles for me all the way to the end. Finished the 17.84 miles in a 5:46 avg. So a pretty good marathon pace workout when I really have felt trashed all week. TRASHED. Never felt super but never felt horrible today- just an even effort across the board. The course has a good elevation drop as it starts above the town of Gunlock and drops to Ivans but there are several solid uphills throughout the entire length. Including 2 in the last 4 miles that really make you work. Plus by then it was full sun and over 80. 1.25 cool down- felt like I worked but didn't trash anything along the way. Overall I'm pretty pumped about the results of the workout. Can't really call it a race. But at the end of a bigger week which included a 33 mile run on Monday. I'll take it and smile.
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