Wasatch Back (188 Miles) 29:46:20, Place in age division: 125
Easy Miles
Threshold Miles
Marathon Pace Miles
Track speed mileage
Hill mileage
Total
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
6.91
6.91
Well I have finally come out of my much needed sleep coma,
and am trying to write this report.I
hope I can remember what happened two days ago.I was really sad that we came in almost 40 minutes slower this year than
last year until Kim reminded me that they added 7 miles to the course so at out
9:15 average pace we really came in faster this year!
The race really started Thursday night when Kim and my Mom
came down and we decorated the vans.Dan
(the driver of van 2) was coaching his son’s baseball game so we decorated his
suburban and our van at the same time.It was really fun and I think they turned out great.Our team is the ROAD CREW and we had huge DO
NOT PASS signs on the back windows.When
we were driving to Logan Kim was laughing at all the cars that were not sure if
they could pass me or not!
We drove up Friday morning and got to the start plenty
early. We ran into our cute niece Rachelle who was asked to run this race last
minute.She was so cute and happy I
would love her to run this race with us next year.We got everything ready and we were off.
I started running my first leg at 5:02pm it was not nearly
as hot as last year and I was hoping really improve my performance on this
leg.It is seven miles on a really bad dirt road
with the first two going straight up and the next 3 straight down.Right from the get go I could tell I was in
much better shape.I had my first road
kill right away.Soon after that I was
passed by a guy in a mullet wig wearing denim over all shorts (team hillbilly) this
is where I decided I was only going to race myself.I knew there were some really fast runners
out on the course and I was not going to get down every time I became road
kill.I wanted to run this portion of
the race at a 8:27 pace however I could not look down to see how I was doing
because the road was so bad every time I tried I about fell.I really felt good the whole run I think I
finally kicked this legs butt even though I didn’t meet my time goal I have really
gained some confidence in my training.
Splits: 10:05, 9:40,
8:16, 8:10, 8:25, 9:04, 8:31
Comments
From Huans32 on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 13:02:34 from 138.64.2.76
Awesome job!! The vans looked great. And look at those sweet splits. You did really great on the dirt road with all the ruts. And was flying.
Add Your Comment.
Keep it family-safe. No vulgar or profane language.
To discourage anonymous comments of cowardly nature, your IP
address will be logged and posted next to your comment.
Do not respond to another person's comment out of context. If
he made the original comment on another page/blog entry,
go to that entry and
respond there.
If all you want to do is contact the blogger and your comment
is not connected with this entry and has no relevance to others,
send a private message instead.
