Marathon relay morning. Temp 60'
After the last two nights of getting less than 6 hours of sleep, I woke up tired but racing still felt like the fun thing to do. I was on Matt's team. I met all but one of our team members. I had to go to a scout meeting at 8:30, so I had to leave right after running. I would have liked to hang around awhile and talk but I wasn't to be.
I was our 1st runner. They yelled GO and I was off. I tried to start off easy and I thought I was but after about a third of a mile into the race I checked the garmin and I was sub 6. It wasn't long after that, that I started to feel the pain of going fast. I lost confidence mid way through the race when the pain levels get high. I thought of all the reasons why I shouldn't run fast. I slipped from 3rd place to 4th. Mile 3 was my slowest. Then I toughened back up and got going again. I moved into 3rd place and stayed their the rest of the way.
For the rest of my teams great effort see Matts blog
http://mtms.fastrunningblog.com/blog-09-12-2009.html | 