It was a nice morning for a mid-summer race in SLC. No wind and about 75'. My son-in-law Austin signed up and asked me to run. I've only been running about 20 miles a week so I had little hope that I'd have an outstanding race.
There were a lot of fast runners and high school XC teams. Jared Ward won with a time of 27:53. That might be a new course record.
I had a better race for my low mileage training than I thought I would. After a couple of fast miles I decided to back off just a bit, thinking I might die at the finish if I kept up the pace.
Mile times, (6:31, 6:27, 7:05, 6:49, 6:48, 6:57)
I didn't know what place in my age division I was in during the race, but for the first two miles, I was running just behind the guy that was in 3td place in my AD. He looked like he could be my age so I kept my eye on him. He was looking strong and so I let him go after mile 2. He put some distance on me in the next mile or two. But to my surprise with two miles left I was catching up with him. With about 1K in the race remaining I passed him and pushed hard the remaining of the race. So I ended up placing 3rd in my AD out of 24 and 174th of 854 total racers. Only chicked by 24. I thought that was great for the low mileage training.
Austin got 8th place overall with a time of 30:06. Lighting fast!!
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