2:00 pacer for the PCHM. What a wonderful run! A nice downhill course, but not enough to tear up your quads. Met Becca at the park and ride, then met the pacers at the bus to get packets. Got to sit by MCat on the way up! Fun ride and at least they had fires to keep the main chill off in the morning. It was SO cold!!! I didn't want to get undressed when it was time. Blech. Got to see lots of friends at the start...speedy UT county girls! Then lined up with my crowd and we were off. Mostly an uneventful run down the canyon. I ran with Eric's wife the first 8 miles and around 7ish or so I picked up Earl. We chatted and just before the ever flowing fountain in the canyon he said he was going to have to drop, because his quads were tired. He hadn't finished under 2:00 for a couple years. Well, I figured it was time to pull out the big guns...the Boston story! Before he knew it we were at mile 11 and picked up another girl that was struggling because her boy pacer had run out of stories! :) I told her I'd just talk her through to the finish. I got them both to mile 12 and sent them on their way, because I was about 20 seconds cushioned that I needed to run out before the finish. Besides, by this point Becca had run back to get me and tell me about her awesome race! We slowed down and encouraged the masses on to a sub 2:00 finish! I crossed at 1:59:58.6 official time. Excellent! Afterward Becca and I ran about another mile. I'd turned my garmin off, so I'm just guessing off her watch. I loved finishing and having SO many people thank me afterward. Earl especially had to find Jonathan and tell him how awesome I was as a pacer. I truly love pacing! I could do it every weekend if I wasn't so selfish and wanted to race a few myself :) Garmin Stats (remember, when pacing I use mile markers from the course...not garmin)
AP: 9:06 splits: 9:10, 8:52, 8:58, 9:06, 9:13, 9:12, 9:14, 9:10, 9:26 (walk a water stop), 8:53, 8:54, 8:55, 9:06, 10:11 (last .18 recorded) The course didn't have markers miles 2-8, kind of frustrating honestly! But, we got back on track quite easily.
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