After my first leg I had about 2.5hrs till my 2nd leg. Drunk some gatorade and a lot of water, ate a pop tart and some fruit leather. Ate a few gummy bears about 20 minutes before. We were in like 20th place when I got the handoff(out of 85) so I wanted to catch at least 10. This leg was 7.31 miles and it went down 2600ft in elevation. The first quarter mile was uphill and I passed some one right away on the hill. It was flat for probably another quarter mile then it got super steep for the rest of it. I passed 2 more people by 1.5 miles in, and then saw nobody the rest of the leg till 400m left. I was going at a pretty good pace for most of it. At one point will a little over a mile left I had to stop and walk for a bit on the downhill haha. I was hauling, going like 4:30 pace when I started to lose control cuz it was so steep and my legs were starting to turn to jello. Took a minute to slow down and walked for like 15 seconds till I had control. Kicked it in the last 400 in a 63, and it was pretty much flat so I was happy with that. We ended up coming in 17th, so it was decent. Not too bad considering how slow my parents are haha. The downhill wrecked my legs and I hope they will be back to normal so I can go for breaking 5 on Tuesday. |