my makeup may be flaking

Ran the first 7.5 miles of the SLC half. Felt pretty bad quite honestly, but my knee felt good enough that I decided to sign up.

AM 8.5 miles

PM Ran to Sunnyside from School. There was a track meet at East high, so I ran from Foothill to Guardsman twice (and ran back up in between). I managed a 3:31 and a 3:34 despite a vicious wind picking up during the second one. The distance is .71 miles or there about, but it is downhill (equivalent to about 5:20 pace).

Two loops of sugarhouse Park in 22:08 (10:59.11:09).

Legs feel very meh.

Bwahahahahaha!

That's really all I could think during this race. I came in thinking that I would run 1:13 to 1:16 and I knew that a sub 1:14 would make me very happy.

Sometimes the reverse taper works well for me and sometimes it is hell. This whole week my legs have been really feeling it and that manifested itself today big time. Big time.

I planned to take it out "easy" the first couple of miles and I did. At least, I thought I did. But I somehow hit the mile in 4:52, yes it was downhill but I was right there with Teren running side by side with him. I even felt like I had another gear that I could go to if I needed, but that I really should wait.

As soon as we reached the second mile mark and the race started to go steeply down, my legs started to burn. Just burn! I slowed down a little so that I was only at 15:30 at 3 miles. Ha! But I could tell right then I was in for a long day. I was still on 1:07 pace but I started thinking that 1:15 would be good. I just tried to keep my turning going as I got passed first by Riley Cook, then the marathoners, then Steve Anderson and Walter then Justin Park then Brian Summers. At no point did I really feel comfortable, it  was like the last 11 miles of a marathon...on a bad day, but I soldiered on knowing that I could still finish about where I predicted I would.

On State Street I got passed by Rob Murphy, with whom I'd planned to run before the race, and he seemed to be having difficulties of his own (see his report). On the worst of days, I will still put up a fight all the way to the finish and I managed to motor away from him in the last mile.

And then there was the lifting:

I didn't do adductors today, they just had no strength. I did do fire hydrant with a theraband as well as bilateral leg press. I also did my four way knee stabilizer exercise.

Also calf raises, plank, quads, hammies, adductors, back, internal/external rotation and one-legged bridging.