The last month and a half I haven't trained very well so I wasn't excited about running really hard and killing myself, also, I was in the middle of our wards youth conference and we were going to Seven Peaks water park to finish the youth conference and I didn't want to look to much like an old man.
I decided to run with Tom hoping that he would get around his PB time which would be plenty fast for me. I hope Tom didn't mind me running with him. Anyway Tom shot out of the blocks and ran a pretty dang fast first and second mile. I was wondering at that point if I would be able to stay with him and I was trying to get refocused for a hard tough run. Luckily for me and not Tom he probably had to much adrenilane going and went out to fast. We started to slow down to a better pace. Tom started to lose the edge and running wasn't fun anymore about half way which is way to soon in the race. I usually get there around the last couple of miles but when you get that close to the finish it is easier to keep pushing and metally grind it out. Tom, however, did quite well the rest of the race for hitting the dead zone so soon in the race. I left Tom at about mile 9.5 because I didn't feel like I was helping him at all and I thought he would be able to metally tough it out better without me. I think I need to work on my motivational guidance if I pace someone in the future.
Mile splits were as follows:
Mile 1-5:48, Mile 2-6:04, Mile 3-6:25, Mile 4-6:05, Mile 5-6:40, Mile 6-6:43, Mile 7-6:25, Mile 8-6:34, Mile 9-6:49, Mile 10-6:22, Mile 11-6:19, Mile 12-6:44, Mile 13-6:43, Last 0.18-1:13
I started bogging down at the end. It may have been the lack of sleep due to youth conference the last couple of days or that I just didn't train well as of late. Anyway, I accomplished my two whippy goals of beating all Manti High graduates of 83 and getting under 1:25. | 