Notes
Very very cold. Tights, two layers up top, hat and gloves, and I was still freezing when I finished. First mile was kinda difficult, combo of uphills and windy. The second mile was mostly a long straight and I knew I had some distance to make up so I pushed this whole mile. Then I still felt like I could go faster in the third mile so I picked it up more. Downhill helped and after passing 2nd and 3rd after 1.5 I was pretty much in the clear for 2nd. Then it was just seeing if I could catch up to Jake. I guess Jake sped up as well for the third mile so I ended up making up only a little bit of ground. Just didn't start fast enough.
I'm pretty impressed with how this race went since I went into it not giving two shits about it. The cold was miserable. But I was still able to perform well enough in the cold. I ended up being able to turn it into a real race for myself. I am very anxious to go faster and especially get on the track. Once Snow-Hell blows over and this week ends we may finally see warm-ish temperatures for an extended period of time and I can get more workouts and mileage in. Gonna go for two workouts this week but it will probably end up being one after the snow fucks that plan up.
Oh and not terrible mileage for the week. If I had done a real long run I would have been darn close to 60. So I'll go for 60 miles next week, and when that doesn't happen after we get buried in white stuff I will hit 60 the week after.