AM - I was really excited to get up and get going this morning for the race. Got out and was able to get in a few miles for a warm-up. Getting up to the starting line and seeing everyone from the club and friends from the store was great. I then started paying a little more attention to who might be going for the money. I soon realized that there really weren't very many around and thought I might have a small chance to get a little cash. As far as I could tell it was just Peppi, Walter, Myself, but there usually is somebody there that I don't recognize or doesn't start right on the line.
Anyway's here's how the miles went down:
1st 5:34 - Walter and Peppi took off and a couple other people that I didn't recognize. I just stayed back a bit so I didn't hit the first mile too fast. Weather was overcast, a bit humid, but cool.
2nd 5:57 - After making the first turn and going up the 2nd mile Peppi started to slow a bit due to not being interested in leading into the wind with a slight rain. I started having flashes of Clyde breaking the wind for Peppi and decided to just stay behind Peppi and see how slow we got. After about 2 min. a pack of 4 of us were behind Peppi going 6:25 pace and nobody would take the lead. I thought it was quite amusing.
3rd 5:08 - Going into the downhill I took off a bit with everyone else being lead by Walter then Peppi.
4th 5:17 - Basically stayed in third place until mile 8. Was still feeling pretty good bud I already was feeling the "pound" in my quads. I think It might be the end of this pair of Type A's. I also had been running with Bob Lambert or Ogden and He stared to drop a bit through here.
5th 5:29 - Just trying to hold on. I realized somewhere in here that I just didn't have any mojo this morning. Took my first Gu to see if that would help jump-start my system a bit more. - Didn't seem to help much.
6th 5:31 - Same. Just running by myself.
7th 5:47 - The little rollers before Tropic I started feeling my form drop a bit and as we crested the hill I made the mistake of looking back. I saw that Thierry Dutoit wasn't too far off of me and I just felt like I was toast. My quads were already thrashed at this point.
8th 5:53 - Thierry Dutoit caught up to me and I was just in enough pain to not care that he passed me. I was just focusing on keeping my form together as much as possible.
9th 6:07 - knew that I wasn't going to catch back-up to Thierry Dutoit and looked back for the second time - and I didn't see a soul. You can see what happened when I discovered no one was behind. I immediately started thinking I was still "in the money" and all mental toughness that I had left.
10th 5:57- same as above
11th 5:54 - same as above
12th 6:14 - Looked back again - no body in sight. Oh, what a competitor I am!!
13th 6:02
13.1 5:20 - Picked it up to look good for the finish line.
I ended up running the race 8 seconds slower than last year. I really felt like I was in better shape. I still think I am, I just didn't have a good day,.
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