Best of luck to you!

Ran a sub-8, was the 6th overall, and 1st for the 20-29 crowd. 7:58 pace was unrealistic so I never bothered trying to run that (did manage a few miles below that in the last 4 miles, though, which was nice.) More to follow, final time was 7:47:?? (official results aren't online yet and I didn't stop my watch right away.) I can now tell people with a straight face that I can run for 50 miles, and I won't be blowing smoke out my ass.

AWESOME!!! It blows my mind that your 50 miler pace is not much slower than my Tempo Pace.

Thanks! I finished my race report, finally! I wrote most of it this morning but had to come in to work and realized when I got here than about 1/3 of it didn't get saved for some reason. (Apparently the preview button in wordpress doesn't save your draft.) So, I had about an hour and a half to rewrite (which was much faster as I had a general idea of what to say) and then just had to finish it up and polish it a little. Lots of words, lots of splits, lots of pictures: http://news.runtowin.com/2009/01/09/running-from-an-angel-50-miler.html There are also links to my training schedule (which is basically just a summary of this thread), how I prepared the week before the race, and exactly what I ate during the race at the top & bottom of the race report. I still need to write about my recovery from the race, but I'm going to wait until after I go snowshoeing this weekend to write about that. I also am waiting on some photos that a friend took that I hear are rather humorous.