I have a good friend/old mission buddy who lives in Riverton so I came down to run this with him. I have to treat him well so he will throw me enough FF miles to get us to Tromsø Norway next June for the midnight sun marathon. That is our plan anyway. This was a fun race, very well executed, I like the local flavor of runs like this, well organized, nice people, great atmosphere, though a little too much traffic in a few places. I found the course (I mapped it here, accurately I think) to be very challenging- lots of turns, and some really nasty hills. The hills came as very steep downgrades or upgrades, some on paved switchbacks, so I couldn't really take advantage of the downhills to offset the losses I had on the uphills. There was also a constant 7-10 mph wind out of the north and I got too strung out from others to do any drafting. There was also a tough section on the Jordan river parkway were they were doing construction where we had to run about 0.4 miles on ungraded soft gravel. Running on the parkway was nice though. Now that I know how to get mile splits off my garmin I can see how I did: 6:21, 6:26, 6:08, 6:44, 6:33, 6:36, 6:48, 6:44, 6:54, 7:15, 6:57, 6:26 for 13 miles. And that is the distance my garmin called the race. There were so many turns it may have gotten confused, but I am guessing the course was 0.05-0.1 miles short. Anyway I obviously crashed a bit toward the end but recovered for the last mile.
Managed to win the over 40, was hoping to run a little faster than this but first race on a tough course, I will take it. Drove back to Logan and did a big chem demo for my twins birthday party. Now I am quite wiped out. I'm not getting any younger.
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