11.49 miles for my 2 legs today.
I ran my second leg of 4.53 miles in 25:31 for an average of 5:38/mile. It was a nice gradual uphill climb. I had close to 40 roadkills on this one. My last leg started right after the Ragnar leg. Seth, who is part mountain goat, beat his previous time from last year for a new record. Unbelievable! I started and had about a mile uphill and then it dropped off into Deer Valley. It was extremely steep and knew my quads were going to be trashed afterwards. I had 2 miles straight down and then about a .25 uphill. This didn't feel good. I then dropped back down and had a slight uphill while then finishing all downhill. I didn't want to hammer it that much but it didn't help out that much. I did the 6.96 miles in 36:46 for 5:17/mile overall. It should have been faster but my legs were trashed. I didn't want to hurt them more than they needed to be hurt.
I had a great time seeing everyone up at the race. It was great seeing both teams take 2nd and 3rd respectively. Not bad at all! I had a great van to be in and it was really nice getting to know everyone better. Time to get rid of the Brian Sell 'stache or Katey might hurt me!
I am going to really revamp the training and be focused for Twin Cities. I want to get some good hill training in with some quality speed work in on top of the mileage. My hamstring seems to be ready for it all so here we go. | 