Ran a nice easy/asleep summit light run to loosen up this morning. Knee felt really good for the first 2 miles, but the last one it was getting sorer - but not horrid at all!! Felt nice to run in the cool morning by myself and just relax. (Alchemy 144.4) The race was pretty unorganized, first we thought the girls went first, so we warmed up, then they told us boys were first, so we just stretched slow, then they told us we were starting 5 minutes after the boys since it was a one-loop course, so we hurried over to the start w/o finishing stretches. Then some school's boys totally missed their race, so the officials were going to start those boys a minute before all us girls, then when they shot the gun for them, they told us girls to go with them when we weren't expecting it at all and they hadn't told us we were going with the boys - they'd said the exact opposite! So the start was really crappy and late. Weird. Then the course was pretty crazy! It went out in the dirt desert on some 4-wheeler trails or something, with some intensely steep hills (up and down - ow) and the whole race there was tons of wind (mmm...sand...yummo). The race itself actually went reasonably well, I still think I could've pushed better in a couple of places when I let myself settle and my hamstring almost died on all those hills, but overall not bad. And I won!!! Got one of my two goals for the race, since my time was 19:09. Dern. (DD spike 15.9)
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