Well I woke up at 4:00 and was out the door after the usual routine by 4:55. I weighed myself before and after prerace weight at the house was 176.8 lbs and 8.2% to 15.7% Body Fat. I felt very hydrated. Post race and post race run I was 174 even 7.7% to 15.1% BF
My stomach felt queezy again this week I didn't take N.O. or ibuprofen and about 30 minutes before the race I started to settle down. I took some 5 Hour energy(caffenie) and some pseduphedrine along with some rolaids and and Imodium a couple bottles of gatorade some bread a banana, and a power bar. Did my ususual 2 mile warm up and started to feel loose. I used a port a potty down the road that was never occupied. I saw alot of people there I knew both before and after. No one from the blog that I knew though.
Race started I and I made a concious desion not to start to fast.let about ten people go and thenwatched another ten pass me over the first mile got chicked 6 times and I caught them all but one. First Mile was 6:25 HR 162 seemed low but it was pretty cool out.
2nd Mile 7:15 HR 166 whoops what happened I think I really blew it on this one but there is a big up hill.
3rd Mile 6:39 HR 169 at about 2.5 I knew the hardest part was over and Mentally gave a big sigh.
4th Mile started to make up some great time 6:29 HR 169 started to pass alot.
5th Mile had to be my best.6:11 HR 172 passed half a dozen people and I did so while drafting and passing with speed.
6th Mile mailed it in a little but some slight up hill 6:41 HR 173
.2 in 70 secs felt strong HR 176.
Overall my age group was way competitve for tis race this year. Last several years I would have been 1st or 2nd Oh well. 16th Overall not to bad I though I would do better but I did run the day before and logged a lot of mileage this week. THey also said that there was a lot more people then normal. I wish I could figure out how the alltitude came into affect. I'll have to do some more research. All I really care about at this time is St. George and trying to hit sub 3.
The shirt was one of the better ones I have received lately. | 