I road up to the race with Dave H, his brother James H, and their dad and we slept in James camp trailer in the town where the race finished. I owe a big thanks to all of them for letting me tag a long and for being so generous. You guys ROCK and roll! The race today went good. It wasn't an amazing performance where I felt like I was really able to let it go, but I didn't have any issues (stomach, diaphragm, other) and was able to just run so that was very nice. Coming into this race I've been telling Mik'L all week that I could end up running a 1:12 or 1:14. I've just been feeling "not fast" what so ever. My training also has been pretty rigorous and not conducive to speed. So under all the circumstances this was a good race. At the start there was a lot of trouble and I just wanted to run my own race. So when the gun went off the 6 guys who beat me all went out pretty aggressively and I just slowly worked into the race. By mile 3 I was a good deal back from all of them and had to spend the rest of the race trying to reel someone in. 1. 5:29- Everyone goes out fast and I'm in 7th and stay in 7th the rest of the race. 2. 5:38- Trying to get warmed up. I should have did a 3 mile warm-up like I'd planned.
3. 4:55- The step downhill. 4. 5:00- Trying to stay relaxed as I watch everyone get farther and farther away.
5. 5:11- Holding my own. 6. 5:12- Doing better here than last year at this point.
7. 5:15- A good mile as the course flattens out. Now I'm slowly starting to come back on some of the guys ahead of me.
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5:30- My two worst miles mentally are 8,9
9. 5:47- Losing it.
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5:41- Actually start getting back on the bus and wanting to go after someone.
11. 5:33- I'm coming back. 12. 5:39- Still feeling good and gaining on the Italian and Dave, but now I'm running out of course. 13. 5:34- Ran fairly well through here.
:21 seconds on the last .1... Finished the race feeling good and just realized I lost too much in the first 3 miles of the race. But it's o.k. Not bummed at all about place or time really. Not thrilled either because there was a lot of cash up for grabs and for the second year in a row I couldn't get my hands on it. After talking and eating for a while we went for a cool down and now I really feel how trashed my body is. I'm really sore at this point. It's over and another one in the books. Now to push my training into St. George turbo gear so I can get ready to pound that one out. I finished behind. 1. Logan, 2. Mike V. 3. Cedar City kid who is at BYU 4. Mike V's friend from Runners Corner, 5. Dave the Brave Holt, 6. The Italian guy. (SS#2- 49.4) 7 mile bike ride = 1.75 mile of easy running. I went out because my bike was crying to be road and I wanted to see if that would help the legs bounce out of the coma they were in.
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