AM Ran a local relay in town with some freinds. I ran this on a team for my company last year & placed 3rd overall, but people had other plans this year, so I ran with some freinds and made it more about fun than competition. We even wore costumes themed after Alice in Wonderland. M wife was on the team too and she and I were dressed as Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum....guess who was Tweedle-Dum?: ) It was great to see her push herself as she was recruited about 5 days before the race and ran the second hardest legs of the course. It's a big hill climb up to the Uta Olympic Park and must ascend about 300 to 400 feet in the last mile. Way to go Lacy! Leg 4 3.68 miles 642 feet vertical 824 feet descent Thsi leg was rough, but really fun. It climbs 444 ft. in the first 1.34 miles, then plunges 711 ft. over the next 1.57 miles, then flattens out before another 177 ft ascent over .50 miles to the exchange. Really varied terrain, but I was able to hold 8:30 pace on the uphill and 5:40 on the downhill, so I was pretty stoked on that. Leg 9 5.99 miles 462 feet vertical 682 feet descent I didn't get any splits for terrain changes on this leg. It's flat for about 1 mile, then does most of its climbing over the next 1.60 miles, half of which are on road, then turns to trails on the Round Valley trail system. The next 2.20 is trail coming down into a neighborhood and then is realtively flat the reat over the way on paved trails. 2 factors here made it not so fun....headwinds and lots of mud on the trails. I was rockin thru the first section, but about.50 miles from the top of the trail is when I hit mud. I tried to maintain pace coming down and almost wiped out a few times because of the slippery conditions. After leaving the trails It felt like I had bricks on my feet from the mud, and I had to push into the wind until the exchange. Still a really fun run though, and great course! So it was a good run with fun people on a beautiful sunny day in the mountains.
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