About 1.5 miles in, my HR was jacked. I tried to hold on, but I had to back off. CK ran with me for a bit, but he had more in the tank and I pushed him off to go catch Doug. I struggled from 4 to 8. I could not get in a groove and the hills justed seem to get steeper.

At mile 6, I was still at my planned pace of 9 min miles. I think I held it until mile 9, but I really paid for the effort the rest of the way.

As I was running to the line up the last hill, Doug and CK started yelling to me to move. I wanted to saying one thing, but opted to just give them a blank stare. LOL I finished with nothing in the tank. I have not felt that shattered since my last 70.3. Frankly, I need to think about why. I had higher expectations, but I am not disappointed.

Funny thing about this race...the distance felt shorter than last year, but I ran slower.

Since this was a B/C race, it was all about having fun and taking inventory. I got a good read on my shape.

I ran to the car and changed!


I realized I have been running the flats too much and need to make sure I start mixing in some hard hills. Last year, I was doing TNR leading up to the race. It prepared me much better than flat base work. My cardio was terrible on the up hill efforts.


Love RTR...will do it again next year.