This was a super fun relay. glad I was able to participate I was really happy with my results as well as our team results. It was a 50 mile relay and each team member did 2 legs. My first leg was 4.02 miles this was pretty flat overall with only a little hill in the middle. I averaged 7:47/mile, which is faster than I have done 4 miles since starting running again. the second leg was tougher. It was the last leg and they added a mile+ to it a week before the race started. That had me a little psyched out. It was supposed to be 6.4 miles but it turned into 7.9 miles. It also had a fairly steep hill in the middle. I decided to still do it. I did pretty well on this as well. I wanted to go slower since I new it was a longer distance so I held myself back at first to 8:30/mile then after the hill I had a couple of miles that were at 8:45/mile at mile 5 I started to pick it up again and the last ~3 miles were less than 8:30/mile. The last mile was faster still and it was really cool to have my tem come out and run the last couple hundred yards with me across the finishline. This makes me excited to do another race. |