I have always wanted to do this race and now I am not sure if I want to do it again, but tmie heals all wounds. I rode the bus up with Logan and we started to warm up and ran in the Josse, then into Clyde, Dave, and James Holt. so we all warmed up together. I should have hit a potty and didn't and it came back to bite me. No splits because they weren't good enough to share.
I felt fine the first couple of miles and then we started to drop down the canyon and my legs went to jello! I am not sure why I got so hammered, maybe my XC camp runs had something to do with it? I was tight and felt out of rhythm from then on. The downhill hammered and jarred me so bad that I had to use the potty twice, once at 5 miles and another time at 9 miles and I could never get going after that either. Once we hit Tropic and the rollers I was done and I still had 4-5 miles to go. I was lucky to hold on and run as good as I did. I knew the course would be rough but it just pain brutalized me! I can't quite figure out what happened and why nothing seemed to click or work smoothly, but it didn't. I think the only highlight of this race for me was when we all finished and Clyde, Dave, Logan, and I attempted a two mile cool-down and I could tell they were just as beat up as I was! I don't recall ever getting sore from a half marathon before, but I got sore form this one. I am as sore as I was last year after St. George in some areas of my body. I don't think my legs have ever felt so dead during any race as they did yesterday. I didn't hate the race, I just didn't run well and I literally got the crap knocked out of me yesterday. That course owned me! I did treat myself to a double Bruger with cheese after the race with Logan, I felt I deserved it after a race like that! (Tangent 2- 56 miles) | 