Notes
great weekend with Steve, Alex, and Molly. Hotel was awesome, Dinner with the Hansons runner was great and the race was even kind of fun.. minus the actual running part. I decided to try the 15k instead of the 4 mile since my knee has been bothering me and I haven't done any speed work. I figured 5:50 pace would be easier for 9.3 miles than 5:20 for 4. Turned out to be a poor choice. The humidity was crazy. Hottest race I have ever run. Also you run up a huge hill twice during the race. No hills in chicagoland can prepare you for this monster. Even though I felt I went out conservative the first two, I guess I should have gone out much slower. But at the time I didn't realize the size of the hill and the humidity. I was very glad to see Alex stick it out and he ended up catching me with around 3 or 4 to go. Thought I had him the last mile, but one the finishing downhill stretch he ended up flying by me and finishing a few seconds ahead of me. Good to see that fighting spirit. I was content to coast it in...it's ok cause I'm old.
Splits:
5:46 (felt easy at the time)
5:55
6:16 (first time up the monster hill)
6:09
6:50 (yikes, second time up the hill)
6:47 (not recovered yet and still kind of hilly)
6:00
6:13
6:14