t-runner - California was in a bit of a heat wave the week prior and that weekend.  Even here in Eureka people said it was hot, but of course of us "hot" is like 70.   A lady at one of the aid stations said last year it rained during the entire race, so go figure.  I kept watching the weather hoping things would turn at least a little crappy weather-wise, but no such luck.

It's definitely not a technical course by any stretch of the imagination, but there is a lot of climbing, which means you gotta go down.  The only way I figure you can train for hill work when you live in Flat Land is to find something like a steep overpass or get on a treadmill and raise it as high as it will go.  And lots of quad strength training with lunges, step ups, etc.

Besides the medics and Tim, the water running aid station worker, and, as always, the wonderful aid station workers, for the first time I just couldn't come up with anything positive about the run.  The heat took all the joy out of it.  I felt worse at the halfway point of this race than I have at the end of any race in a very long time.  If I could count on weather cooperation, I would go back and try, try again.  But with Central California (I grew up 2 hrs south of Big Sur), it can be a crap shoot weather-wise this time of year.