This was my first trail race after getting back to RI from spending the summer in tennessee. I was really not ready for it. This race went out and back over 4 mountains... It was very rocky and rooty and the climbs were only worse than the descents because they took slightly longer. I finished 5 minutes behind bedoukian which was pretty good but only 5 minutes in front of sharkey which wasn't so great. I ended up running most of the first half with sharkey because I kept getting lost and the pack behind me would catch up. On top of that, I was stupid and wore cross country flats which were horrible for the rocks and I stubbed my toe so bad that it has been oozing puss for the past 2 days and I suspect I will lose it in 2 weeks or so. I am sore although not as sore as I thought I would be. I hope that I am ok to do a vo2max workout on wednesday or thursday. Next saturday I will be doing the wrentham 20k trail race which should be much easier in both distance and terrain. | 