Tough race I will give a full report later this evening...
PM- I can finally sit down and get this race in the books, between Dance competitions and the General Priesthood session I haven't been able to find any time! All I can say is that the first 7 miles I felt really good but then when we turned back towards Eden it was very tough, we had a head wind the last 6 miles and I think it was colder towards the end which was kind of weird... When I made it to the starting line it was great to finally meet Clyde and Andy and Cody and Logan. The are great guys and they run at a pace that I am not familiar with, they are incredible. It was also good to see Tom and Kim they are always so nice and very encouraging they both did very well too, I just feel privileged to know them:-).
Well, back to the report when we got to the start it was surprisingly warm and I was slightly over dressed but by the time I got to mile three I was shedding my jacket, that cost me about 2 minutes! Ehhh!!! I think I started to quick but not as quick as I usually do, but I felt pretty good until mile 8 and then I really started to loose it. I was just working to hard and once I was at mile 10 I was in no mans land and I just tried to hold on. I didn't give up, and I really was pushing as hard as I could but I had noting left and I can't figure out if it was the hilly ups and downs combined with the head wind or I was just spent from not enough tempo work but it does give a pretty good idea where I'm at. My legs are really trashed right now as I'm writing this so I will have to see how they recover and then go from there for next weeks training work.
Here are my splits,
1-7:06(148)
2-7:11(161) Downhill Heart rate out of control.
3-7:11(163)
4-7:30(160) Still feeling pretty good.
5-7:19(162) Better
6-7:40(161) Starting to struggle.
7-7:29(166) Hearts working way to hard, slightly uphill
8-7:48(166) rolling hills and head wind, the wheels are coming off!
9-7:55(165) Really struggling.
10-8:31(162) felt like I was still pushing hard! Och
11-8:14(164) Giving it all I had, Literally!!!
12-8:13(165) Still pushing:-)
13-8:21(166) losing it.
.10 29.81 7:04(166) Done:-)!!!!!
I was about 6 minutes of a PR but this course was a lot tougher than the Riverwoods 1/2 the rolling hills for the last 6 miles were pretty tough, at least for my tired legs they were...
I am happy with this for the simple reason that I never gave up and I pushed until the very end, I have some hill work to do and some tempo work to do in the up coming weeks, to help get me stronger and with that said, goodnight Gracie....
Average pace was 7:43 and my heart rate average was 162, total time was 1:41:06.
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