66F. Warmish, but pretty good racing weather for this time of year.
I have been looking forward to this race for awhile -- haven't raced in 3 months and wanted to see some progress from all the summer slogging. Some mile repeats I did a few weeks back told me I'd be really close to breaking 40, but it was cooler when I did those so I had some doubts today.
The course was good in that it was as flat as you can get, and it was USATF Certified. The bad news was that there were 31 90-degree turns and 4 turns that were closer to 180 degrees; a lot of course crammed into kind of a small space.
So the race started and it's me and red singlet running by ourselves for first. Like Flatlander has said, we're not terribly fast in Texas. Anyway, I stayed right behind him for about 4 miles. He started to gap me in the 5th mile and I pathetically tried to stay close but it was not to be. I could tell by the way he was thanking the course volunteers all along the way that he had some wind left that I did not. So he ended up maybe 15-20 seconds ahead.
I should have turned off auto lap on Garmin because they had mile markers and I knew it would measure the course short with all the turns. But, here are the garmin splits:
6:19, 6:25, 6:31, 6:33, 6:33, 6:27, 0:55.
Measured it at 6.15 miles, but like I said, USATF certified...I can definitely understand a 1% Garmin error with the maze of a course we ran through.
So, I think I'm right on track with the BQ goal. I still have some improving to do to get there, but not an overwhelming amount. With a good cycle, I think I'll be where I need to be come January.
official results
finish line pictures...not only did we have to follow the golf cart guy for 40 minutes, he also got in the way of the shot!
Afterwards came the Kids' K
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