I've got mixed feelings about this race. On one hand I am very discouraged because going into the race given the elevation profile and where I thought my current fitness level was I thought for sure I would be able to at the very least go under 1:09. But, on the other hand I know that the course was a little long and everyone I talked to said they thought the course was a lot harder than then they thought it was going to be. I felt the same way. I was very surprised at the difficulty of the course. I was also thrilled to take 4th place given the level of competition. Even if I had the race I was hoping to have I don't think I would have been able to place any higher than 4th the three that beat me were just better than me it's as plain and simple as that. I went a little harder and faster than I probably should have gone on some of those downhill miles from miles 3-5. It was nice to have company for the first 6 miles or so and then it got incredibly lonely for the rest of the race. Here are my mile splits based off of the mile markers on the course: 5:19, 5:38, 4:56, 5:07, 4:21 (Not sure why this one was so far off I know I didn't drop a 4:21 mile on the 5th mile though.), 11:20 (next 2 miles, I missed the mile marker), 5:50, 5:28, 5:34, 5:15, 5:35, 5:23, :37 for the last .1. Cooled down 4 miles with Ben, Mike, Scott, and Justin. It was fun to see a lot of you bloggers at the race. Many had great races!
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