Notes
Excellent race. Finished second to Scott but soundly beat Norry who ran ahead of me until we got midway though the hills.
My strength right now is aerobic fitness and I used it against Norry and Dino today. Those two sprinted out a little ahead of me but I went right up to them and never let the pace slow even when I sensed they were letting it slow some. Those first two miles the three of us were pretty much together and I took the lead for a good chunk of it because I thought it was too slow. They had to hang with me on those early miles. As soon as we hit the first hills Dino dropped back but Norry hung in there. He opened up a good 5 or 10 stride lead on me on the big downhill after ascending the first hill. I reeled him back in on the next hill and started running ahead of him, still pushing really hard. I consciously wanted to make him struggle to keep up on those hills. He actually summoned the will to take the lead again on another downhill but I was right on his tail. At the end of Monte Vista is a set of steps (only 3 of them) to go up if you remember. He was ahead of me on those steps but immediately after those steps is the last steep hill and I just ran away from him at that point. I was recovered enough to push and he wasn't. Now the race goes mostly flat until you get back to Fruitvale for the big downhill. I was running scared all the way back to College drive. Turns out he had given up the ghost before getting to Fruitvale. So, I think that was an example of running him so hard early on that he couldn't catch me on Fruitvale.