Ran the Bridal Veil Falls 10K. Took about 15 minutes or so to warmup. Felt pretty good. No soreness or pain to speak of. The temperature was perfect. Nice and cool for the start. The race started before the scheduled time, so I'd just barely finished my warmup. There was a bit of confusion at the start as everybody just started running. I started my watch and was just settling into a comfortable pace when everybody came to an abrupt halt. Apparently that wasn't really the start. Curt Catmull was saying something about staying on the right of the road, but that was about all I could make out. When he got back in his SUV he honked the horn and I'm guessing the race started at that point. A nice downhill at the start. Felt quite relaxed through the first couple of miles even though my heartrate was creeping up to about 95 percent of my maximum. I backed off a bit and it slowly came down. I felt like I was dragging a bit at mile three, but then I slowly starting better. The last two and a half miles I felt great. I was able to sustain a pretty decent pace for this point in my training. I could have pushed it more at the end, but I wasn't really sure how much distance I had left as the mile markers were not accurate and I'd lost the GPS signal for a while. Finished in 46:46 (2nd in age group, 15th overall). I was fairly happy with my effort as my pace was about 25 seconds faster than the 5K I ran last month, but I realize I still have a way to go before I'm in top shape. | 