St. George Half 1:13:39 I'll come back and put more in later - Got a decent warm up in with Logan, Clyde, and Paul. Felt pretty good and decided that if I stuck to my game plan of not going out too hard, life may be okay and I might run pretty decent - but I knew that I wasn't in great shape, so I couldn't expect a whole lot. Race started off with the leaders (Paul, JeffMc, and Fritz) establishing themselves fairly quickly; then a couple other guys, a few jokers, and then Clyde, Logan and I. Pace was good and I felt pretty relaxed. Logan kept wanting to pull the pace up throughout the first lap. I didn't want to push it too much, but I didn't want to lose him - once that happens, I always struggle. So I tried to keep contact, but keep as calm as possible, by the hill up to the cliffs he had separated himself from me, and then Clyde was about the same distance back of me. Going into the second lap, I had held good 5:30's throughout, but was getting tired. Tyson joined in with me and tried to keep me going. He told me Logan looked tired, but so was I. I kept telling myself to relax as I fought off the desire to just slow down. Eventually I decided to pass Logan, but should have done it earlier. Then I had the fun of fighting through the crowds on the second lap. Tyson tried to yell at people, and some did move, but many had headphones on and didn't hear, some didn't care, and some even yelled at me as I went by like I was doing something wrong. It was kind of frustrating, but it actually helped me speed up a little. I wanted to hold off Clyde, but obviously not that bad, since he went by at about .5 to go and Tyson tried to get me going and I told him no. Then I closed back to about 5 feet behind Clyde off of the trail, but making the turn to the finish, I just decided I didn't want to kick and let him pull back up on me - I am still not sure why I did that (probably the only "bad" thing of the race). Here are the Garmin splits (stayed right near the mile markers until 10 when it started to hit a little earlier each mile): 1-5:32, 2-5:35, 3-5:27, 4-5:29, 5-5:31, 6-5:31, 7-5:33, 8-5:34, 9-5:45, 10-5:40, 11-5:35, 12-5:42, 13-5:40, 13.1-5:40 pace (actually .2 on the watch); so not too shabby on the consistency until around 9 which is where I should have made that move around Logan instead of just holding behind him.
Overall, pretty pleased. My best time in this race in a few years, so that is good. And I kept my head in pretty good throughout the race. Now I guess it is time to actually get in some sort of shape. (Triumph 689.75)(Last Ohana 78)
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