Extremely impressed with this race. I've never run down A.F. canyon, but this race has got to be close to Hobble Creek as far as how fast it is.
5:58, 6:13, 6:17, 6:10, 5:56, 5:59, 6:22, 6:20, 7:14 (bathroom stop), 6:41, 7:37 (I walked), 6:57, 7:11 (walked some more), 0:33. Serious downhill coming out of the canyon. Good news is that I ran an awesome 8 miles (49:17 split). I was basically with Melanie B. and some of her crew right up until we got through part of Cedar Hills golf course. Legs were shot and once I gave in and hit the bathroom stop during mile 9 my race was pretty much over. I feel like I should be faster and that I'm doing something wrong with my training. It almost feels like I've plateaued a bit and now I'm almost regressing from where I was last year and the year before. I'm very mentally weak and feel like I just give in too easy. A little bit frustrating. However, I put in huge miles this week (for me anyways), and I could never simulate this kind of pace in a training run. I'm hoping my quads recover from this and for some reason I'm having thoughts of doing DesNews marathon (I swore I would never do that race again last year)....but only if I can continue to put in 65-70 mile weeks for the next three weeks. So, I guess this race could be a good simulator for that marathon. I'll keep at it.
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