I pulled a Walter Brown today and ran a long run before the race.
The day started at 6 a.m. I went for a 16 mile run in meridian with an AP of 6:58 then ran a 5K in 17:27, and a 1 mile cool down. The race had a bunch of high school cross country runners there.
The race started and some high school kid sprinted way out in front. I though that he will come back to me. The race settled down and I caught and dropped the kid. now running along side me was a high school cross country coach and a HS kid. We hit mile 1 in 5:34. Then I started to feel the miles that I put in today and this week and I started to get dropped and I was thinking that I could live with 3rd. At mile 2 (5:43) and they were 5 or more seconds ahead of me. I started to feel better and I have the endurance here with all the miles I have been putting and the good tempo runs I have been putting in. So I started to push it a bit and was catching them. I caught the coach at just before 2.5 and dropped him, and was catching the hs with just over a 1/4 mile to go. The course ended at the Meridian Speedway on the 1/4 mile oval track. I really started to put the hammer down and came through mile 3 at 5:39. By this time I had dropped the hs kid and sprinted the last 0.1 in 29 sec.
I felt really good about this race without fresh legs. I just wanted a good effort at the end of a long run and 70 mile week which is really high for me. I think that I was not even doing that many a week at USU.
p.m.- I ran (walked/carried/pushind in the stroller) the kids half mile with my 2 year old at the Boise Main Street Mile. This was kind of a flop... He is always running around the house saying ready-set-go and then run around like daddy. So, I decide to take him out to see if he could run a half mile. So I got him all excited and said that we are going running and put on his running shoes. He thought that was great. He ran about 75% of the half mile and only walked/stopped to pick up a stick and play in the water at the end.
So I thought that I would sign him up for the half mile. Well the race didn't start until 7:20 p.m. (almost bedtime) and we got there to early so, by the time his race came around he wanted nothing to do with it. We were quite the spectical... We get home and then he want to go running. | 
