Ran my race. I paced exactly as planned, though I would have liked if I could have ran a bit faster. I had enough endurance to keep running after the finish, I just couldn't really get myself going faster without my HR getting too high, and without me really starting to suck wind. It did get pretty warm near the end of the race, and I was a bit overheated. This was the warmest day all year by far. I could have dealt with 15 to 20 degrees cooler.

Toughened up a bit at mile 10 or so and kicked it in. I've done low 6 min/mi at the end of hard training runs, and was angry that I couldn't get into that gear. At the finish, I felt that I ran it just about as hard as I could have, but I recovered too quickly post-race, and felt fine all day afterwards to honestly say to myself that I gave it my all.

Walked through chute. Debated running back to my car about 2 miles away as a cool down, but saw the shuttle bus back to the start a few feet away and decided I could cool down by sitting on that bus.


Training. I am training through this race, so I had some fatigue from the week. I did a ride 2 days before that had my quads burning during the race.

Overall, I for this distance I would need to get more real speedwork in. Some hard 1km or 1 mile repeats weekly. I had the legs but not the lungs, I was huffing and puffing like a locomotive near the end and at any time my pace dipped into the 6:30s.


CGI puts on good races in this area. I am generally pretty confident that when I do their races that everything will be on time and well organized.