I had so much fun at this race! Teena, Smooth and Larry are the best traveling buddies ever! The problem was I kept forgetting I was running too. In fact I threw away my bib number and had to fish it out of the garbage last minute. I was so exited to see how Doone did I could hardly handle it. We meet up with Ross, Leslie, Doone and Rhett for dinner Friday night. It was so fun talking about the race the next day and planning how we would run it. When I started doing the math I found out I was going to have to run this race at close to a pr pace so that I could stay ahead of Doone and see her come in. If I ran it a slow long run pace she would pass me. Then right before Teena and I went to bed Teena looked up the winning time in my age group last year. It was 1:55:XX I thought I had a 1:53 in me, so I thought cool I could walk away with hardware! Larry drove me to the start of the race. There I met up with Rhett and Leslie and waited for Teena to pass. She looked so cute...I am not sure how she could look that cute after 13.1 hard miles! Anyway then we started I think I lined up too close to the start and the first few miles were a little fast but they felt good. Three miles in I caught up to what I thought was my main competition, I asked her age (yes I am that competitive!) she said she was 42 and when I heard she was not in my age group I let her go ahead of me. I felt like I pushed fairly hard during this race but I am not sore today at all so I guess I could have pushed more. After the race I waited for Doone to come across the finish line. I was so proud of her, even though she didn't BQ she came across with a huge smile on her face. What a classy lady!
This course seemed hard and I am still not sure how I will do at St. George. I think I have got some speed back after the hammy injury but I still feel like I was in much better shape last year. I guess time will tell. Splits: 8:00, 8:11, 8:36, 8:35, 8:33, 8:25, 8:28, 9:14, 9:00, 8:43, 8:42, 8:55, 8:51 I feel like I mentally broke down at the end I hope I can hold it together better in a month!
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