Notes
It had been raining for a couple days solid so this was a mudfest. Difficult footing to run on without spikes. This is a great XC course - hilly with single track sections of trail, grass, dirt, even a log jump! Cool. The girls went first and they did two loops of the 2-mile course (for 4 miles) so they tore up the trail pretty good by the time the Masters race started. It was much worse than on my wamup loop. I tried to run 'easy' at about 6:35 pace but between the hills and the mud it was difficult to maintain any 'flow'. I think I did OK but this race felt harder than Clarksburg. So we did 3 2 mile loops and I think I ran pretty consistent:
6:31 & 6:51
6:40 & 6:52
6:35 & 6:52