Notes
Very uneven effort. At start, lots of shade & felt comfortable. Steady pace for the first 2 1/4 miles with cadence steadily in the 89-91 range. At that point hit the I underpass hill the second time, my legs started feeling terrible, and I struggled to finish the last 1.75 miles. Cadence during that last stretch dropped to 86-87 range with a 35-40 second drop in pace.
Not really sure why I hit the wall so badly at that point -- granted it was really humid and miles 2 & 3 were in direct sun so it was much warmer than it was at the beginning of the race, but there shouldn't have been that much of drop off in performance. Truthfully, the negatives from the second half of this race right now are overwhelming the positives from the first half so I think I'm going to forget about running the rest of today and during tomorrow's rest day & start fresh with Saturday's 12 miler.