AM1: 77F, 90% (DP 74F). First race in quite awhile, but I basically met my expectations. I'm pretty awful when the dew point creeps into the mid-70s, so I only expected between 24 and 25 minutes, which is right where I was.
The race started at a big soccer complex, so I got a nice warmup on the grass. This is one of San Antonio's most well-attended races next to the Rock & Roll, so it's actually pretty competetive (the guy that won beat me by ~5 minutes...in a 4-miler - ouch!).
Race started and I just hovered around 6-minute pace at first to see how doable it was. We hit some kind of uphill ramp to nowhere and then turned around and came back down - first mile was 6:05. Mile 2 was the XC mile, which kind of surprised me. It had 2 sections that went through some tall grass (nothing like the nice short soccer field grass) and you kind of had to high-step a little. I'd say between the 2 sections, there was only half a mile total in the high grass - that mile ended up being a 6:09. Mile 3 I found myself alone - guys in front were too far up and no one pushing me from behind. Fortunately it was all flat concrete and I ran it in 6:03. Last mile, I was hot, hurting and unmotivated, and it was a 6:11. 14 bonus seconds and 0.05 miles later I was done, mission accomplished.
The main reason I entered the race, other than for the fun of racing, was to get in a good, hard effort that I wouldn't have otherwise pushed myself to undertake in the heat/humidity. So, to that end, I was successful. 3rd in AG as a bonus (we hobby joggers love to measure ourselves against similarly decrepit runners).
AM2: 1 mile run with Elle.
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