Cheris and I decided to drive to Salem Hills the night before and stay overnight at her cousin Amber's house. We got up at 4:15 am and headed over to Payson high school. The weather was perfect. I did my usual my pre-race routine of banana, white bagel and Immodium. Once again it worked out well for me. My goal for this race was to run a 1:30. The last 3-4 miles were hard. There were a few times during those last miles that I worried I may have gone out too fast. I'm very happy with how it turned out. Cheris ran an awesome race and ended up taking 1st place for the women with a 1:22. I'm so happy for her.
My splits on my Garmin were .10 early for every mile marker. I ended up with 13.21 miles. The placement of the aid stations were a little off from where I thought they would be. I had Gu at mile 4 but no water until about 4.8. Then I had my second Gu at about mile 10 but they didn't have any cups so I didn't have any water to wash it down. I was hoping to take my Ibuprofen at mile 10, but I wasn't able to.
6:54, 6:40, 6:34, 6:23, 6:29, 6:33, 6:35, 6:48, 6:45, 7:10, 7:42, 7:21, 7:26, and 6:54 pace for last .2 on the track.
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