"I don't really need a duck"

5:00 am - 10 miles by my lonesome on the Scott K loop

5:15 am - Newton crew from my house

For the life of me I still can't figure this race out.  Only the first mile marker was out on the course so I don't have splits for the rest of the race.  It was warm/hot and humid.

6:00 am - Ran up to Desolation Lake and back from the Millcreek side with George and Dave.  What and absolutely beautiful run with perfect temps - I even got a bit cold at the top.

6:30 am - Ran up and down Provo Canyon with Sasha and Steve A.  The plan was for me to jump in on the last two miles to Sasha's house to help pace him through the last 2 of his 10 hard.  Even going down the canyon I wasn't feeling it, but nonetheless got after it when Sasha and Steve came up on me.  To my surprise my body responded rather well until I hit the hills for the last half mile, and then it closed up shop.

5:15 am - 10 miles with the Newton crew - pushed the last couple miles 6:14 and 6:15.

5:15 am - Shaggy Mountain loop nice and easy and hot.

1:45 pm - 6 easy miles out and back on the Boise Green Belt.

What a wonderful race!  I now have a new unaided PR by nearly 3 minutes (the course is an out-and-back on the Boise Green Belt).  This is my second year in a row running this race (my sister lives in Boise so we spend a few days hanging out and jump into this half (only $38)).  My sister just lives a bit over a mile from the start of the course so I did a warm-up jog over and got the bowels taken care of.  The weather was pretty perfect with low 60's, a little tiny breeze, and little to no humidity. The race at 7:30 and we were off.  I started of rather conservative and passed several runners toward the end of the first mile.  Around mile 3 I felt something hitting my leg and looked down to see that shoe was coming untied (darn it).  I slowed a bit leading up to the turn-around but then was able to get into a good rhythm going down stream.  A couple little bump in the trail slowed me a bit but otherwise I was feeling great.  I got passed into fifth with about 2 miles to go but passed my self in fourth (a different guy) with about a third of a mile to go.  I ended up finishing 23 seconds behind 3rd (darn shoe lace).  

5:47 (I still think this mile marker is short), 6:01, 6:23 (had to tie my shoe), 6:09, 12:30 (missed the marker), 6:28, 6:08, 6:11, 6:20, 5:59, 6:09, 5:57 and 36 seconds for the last 0.1.

After chatting with the others and resting up a bit I headed out for a 5 mile cool down while waiting for awards.  Collected my miniature bat (a good forget me stick) for first in my division and jogged it back to my sisters house.