We got very little warmup, maybe a mile. Then like .25 we figured for strides after waiting forever for them to open the gate... We ended up jumping the fence while everyone else waited. I think that's how I cut myself...
Well the race spread out pretty fast, I was definitely not warmed up enough. The first mile practically was the warm up. Once Bill gapped me it pretty much stayed the same until the turn onto the trail. That turn was so sharp, it kind of annoyed me. But what can you do. Mile was 6:10 on my garmin (where they had the mile marked it was totally wrong.) Once on the trail there were lots of turns, I was pretty much alone at this part. One guy came up around the two mile and I stayed with for a bit, then he passed me. Two mile was 12:47 (6:37). Finally the 3 mile came, was a little disheartened when I saw it was over 19. Down to the finish my garmin said I finished at 5:31 pace...yay. Now because my garmin is very unreliable when it comes to the hundredths of a mile my splits could very well be faster, my garmin read 3.04 when Michelle's read 3.1 (we ran the course as a cool down to get a second reading and both got the same thing.) regardless, my overall time should be correct.
Overall I pushed myself and that's really all that mattered. This took the place of our tempo run. Cooled down until I hit 10 for the day. Afterwards, we did the polar plunge! Definitely a one time thing. They cut a hole in the ice at Utah lake, inserted a shark tank so that it's safe, and we jumped in and froze.
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