Second overall, Seth track team mate from Utah State was first overall with a at 34:ish something. The course was short it was 6.05 miles. Man! I thought maybe I had you all convinced I could run that fast. Sorry about the race distance error. I only had literally one minute to enter it in. I'll get the race report in when I have more time. But I did feel happy with my performance. I'll but in the mile splits real fast. (Were headed out of town to celebrate our anniversary that was two weeks ago)...
mile 1: 6:28 - .4 downhill and the rest uphill. I took it conservative mile 2: 6:16 - mainly uphill and then rolling hills. At this point I was running with the Utah State track guy. mile 3: 5:31 - .2 uphill and then the rest downhill. I felt I should have pushed harder here. mile 4: 5:28 - completely flat mile and the Utah State track guy (Lopez) was just pulling away like crazy. I knew the uphill was coming so I didn't want to go too much with him. mile 5: 5:57 - .5 flat and .5 uphill and I really felt good. mile 6: 6:14 - All uphill and this is what I'm most proud of how well I ran this uphill. I feel my weakest link is uphill. I exactly gained a little on the Utah State track guy. Ran 1.5 mile warm-up and 9 miles after including the last mile at 6:07, because I just felt so good. I ran 3 miles of the cool-down with Chio Lopez (Utah State track guy), and I was trying to persuade him to get on the blog, and he said that Seth has already talked to him about it. I also mentioned the site to several other runners as well.
I did end up passing a Highland XC runner on the 3 mile to have sole position of second place. He was undefeated in the 800m event all this year. He said when we hit the rollings in the second mile that just killed him.
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