Breakfast: 1 banana T-2hrs, 1 gu (roctane) T-35mins
Warmup: 1.5 miles with Derek and Danny Moody. 0.5 in strides.
Weather: Temps were perfect with a decent tail wind at the start. Turned into a not-so decent headwind at the end.
I took it out way too fast, even for the steep grade. I held things together through 3.5. Here you turn up a 1/2 mile hill. There was also a steady headwind on this section. That fast start really hit me here and I slowed down to a crawl. The rest of the race was a grind. Up and down the hills through the neighborhoods with a constant head wind. I must have been just enough ahead of Derek to not be able to see him on any of the turns. It was too easy to slip in to "just win" mode rather than "run a fast time" mode.
Splits: (4:35, 5:05, 4:59, 5:05, 5:30, 5:35, 1:03)
4 cool-down with Karl and Derek.
I was hoping for a better time and a stronger finish. It was a fun event and I'm glad I went down.
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