Arrived at the trail about two minutes before they were going to start. Not a real big deal since I decided to just run easy with the dog. Of course, when the gun went off, Cassidy really wanted to fly after Travis and the speedsters. I held him back to about a 7:20 first mile and took a little break with him for some water and to water the trees. With most of the quick runners in the distance now, we did the next mile a bit over 8 min pace - stopped again a little after two miles for a couple minutes and then eased on through the last mile for a Cassidy PR of 26:05. He was a pooped pup afterward, so I left him with Trav and I did another mile-ish easy. Travis ran a fairly hard 8 miler this morning, so after two miles hard this evening he shut it down. The guy he was pacing continued on for a PR 17:25 - good deal. |