Paul and I went down to Salt Lake and stayed with Chad (a great host!). Sasha stayed the night too, but got up way before we did, so we only saw him for a bit last night. We got to the start and found Cody and we all warmed up for a couple of miles. It seemed hot and muggy for being 6:00 am. I didn't feel too bad before, during, or after the race. In fact looking back I was probably too conservative. My Dad always used to say "run fast where you can run fast" and I didn't do that today. I got off to a bad start behind a few hundred runners and spent the rest of the time catching up. I don't know all of my splits but I was at 5:12 for the first mile and 21:28 at mile 4, so I ran a steady pace. No killer instinct today! I just gradually got into a pace and stuck with it, while everyone else seemed to take off like crazy and die half way through. In hind site I wish I would have really burried those first couple of miles and tried to hang on. I think I like to run too comfortably and didn't run the race that I could have and should have. None the less, I did run in at 33:51 and got a PR by 10 seconds. And it is like I always say, anytime that you PR it is a good day. It was my first PR this year, well second if you count my 15k. My goal was sub 33:00 and I still feel like I could have done that if I would have really been there to race, and pushed myself harder. The other guys all ran better than I did (Paul, Cody , and Chad), and we all came away with PRs.
It was very muggy after the race while we were in the shute, but when Cody, Paul, Chad, and Adam cooled down back to the cars it felt nice. In fact I think it was cooler a couple hours after the race than it was during, which I am sure made it nice for the marathoners. We went back to Chad's house for breakfast and a good visit before heading back to Logan.
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