I picked up Paul on the way down to Ogden. It was nice to have someone to visit with on the drive down, I had my 17 month old son (Jaren) with me but he isn't much for conversation. We dropped Jaren off in Willard with his Grandparents and made it the start of the race about 45 minutes early. I did about a 2 mile warm-up with Paul, Cody, and Dan. The weather was colder today than for the 5k, but still wasn't too bad for this time of year. I stayed in my warm-ups until the race and then stripped down to tights, two shirts, and some gloves. I didn't see anyone getting down to there signets.
Once again, there were a lot of hot-shots there for the money, so I didn't even worry too much about my place. The course seemed tougher than the 5k and had a lot of up and down. I didn't mind the hills, but there were a lot of small loops and very tight corners that I thought were completely unnecessary, not to mention they all had ice. I thought they could have done a better job in mapping out a decent course with out loops and tight icy corners. I had to slow down a lot in places and take really wide turns on corners, and on a well thought out course that would have never been the case.
I took it out pretty easy and worked my way into a decent pace. I came up on a lot of people during the race, and the only person who passed me was Bob Henze and I caught him in the last 300 meters. I felt okay today I never really pushed myself too hard, and probably should have because I didn’t go under 40 minutes like I wanted to. I never paid much attention to my time after the first mile (6:55) and missed about every split. If I would have been a bit more serious I could have at least shaved another 17 seconds off of my time.
I ended up 21st over all and 8th in the age, so I pretty much got blown out. I’ll take it though for the amount of training time I have and the 5 weeks of total training that I’ve done. 40:16 total time.
I did about a 2 mile cool down. I ended up with my mileage goal again this week. I know that finding the time to run isn’t going to get any easier but hopefully the miles will. 45 miles scheduled for next week.
Paul (4th over all, 34:47), Cody (17th overall, 38:59), and Dan (27th overall, 41:47) all seemed to be okay with the race. Paul won the age and was a couple of seconds out of overall place and money. Dan got bumped up to 3rd in his age because the first three guys were overall. So Paul’s loss was Dan’s gain. | 