Oh we love the winter series. Today was the 15k. I warmed up 2 miles. In the race I started out too fast, went through the mile at 6:27. Then I slowed down to a more manageable pace, 2 miles in about 13:30. Or around there. My goal was to stay under 7:15 pace because I knew that by the end I'd be struggling. Well that didn't happen. I felt horrible and had the worst cramps in the world. At the turnaround I stopped at the portapotties. Then when I started again I felt a little better, but still just struggled mentally because I was doing terrible, my time was so slow. I pretty much just ran it to run it, I didn't feel like I was racing. For the first couple of miles I felt like I was, but after that it just turned into a run. I timed myself and without the stop I was 1:09:08. If that counts as my time then that's 7:26 average pace. My splits for 3 miles each were 21:27, 22:33, 22:52, and 2:20 for the last .3. Did about a mile cool down.
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