Well almost on a fluke Suzanne and I and the kids ended up racing with the SRC crowd.My Boss and his family bought a Tow Home about a third of a mile for the start and invited us up for the weekend. Suzanne and his wife have been "Long Day" running partners the last couple of weeks gearing up for TOU. SInce we wanted something for the family to do this provided a great opportunity and was realitviley well run. The kids started first with a half mile race. I have been begging my kids to run some races with me for a couple years and although they have proved to run a few miles with me during the week they had thus far never been willing to run a race. This changed when the realized my buddies kids would be willing to run as well. I ran the little half mile with my son Nathan 5 and he did great. We bought him some new speedy shoes the night before and I talked them up and he believed the press. 1st in his age group at 3:38 I believe. I am waiting for the offical results to be posted. Brittany ran with mom and in the 7 and 8 bracket finished in 4:40 I recall 5th in her age group the kids loved there ribbons and seem a little more intersted in running again. I had Mikayla run in the 5k which started concurrent with the 15K she also finished first in her age group with a 31 some minute time obviously I wasn't there when she finished. As for me I thought this may be bitting off a little more than I could chew. My first goal was to avoid injury, second to finish the race, and third to run to the best of my current ability. I finally decided that the race would be a good opportunity to run the 8 miles I had planned for the weekend. No Illusions of Grandeur here. Since I had only run 32 mile this year before the race I knew it would be a bit of a struggle. I am fit but by no means on top of my game. None the less when the horn sounded the adrenaline kicked in and it felt like game on and old times. The races itself was very motivating to race again and to begin training. I am happy for the little fitness I have been able to do. Hit the first mile in 7:04 then 6:49 then I began to slow. I knew that at 5800 feet this would be a little more difficult and I knew there was supposed to be a pretty big hill but the whole thing was hilly. If I wasn't going up I was going down and some on dirt. after the 2nd mile I picked out 9 people I wanted to pass and I am happy to say I got 7 but was later passed by one. The last 2.5 miles proved to challenge the high ankle sprain and I never really picked up the pace in the finish the person in was 30 secs ahead and the next person 20 secs behind. First time I ever remember not putting on a kick in the final stretch and I would have been unable to. I am still hobbling a little but plan on running Monday. My wife Suzanne finished in 1:29:52 which made me a little proud. Perhaps the best part was post race I won a spot into Hobble Creek 1/2. Later that day I watched my boss take 1st place in his bike race at Sugarhouse in the Cat 3's must have edged out by about 4 hundereths of a second.
| 