Notes
Second leg of GLR, A7, 7.7 miles. I was done really early, a pretty quick back to back. This was probably my first Real GLR run in three years. Ran on the NCT, a single track trail. Started about 30 seconds up on Chris. I took a wrong turn and he got me pretty quick after that. He asked if I wanted to take it easy which I was all for. We ran pretty steady for just about all this (6:45-6:50 pace). There was a lot of dead time that accumulated on this stretch. Much of this was very swampy with a lot of down trees that we had to stop to get around or try to hurdle (steeple practice paying off). We were passed early on by a guy who kept getting lost so he kept coming back to us. We passed a girl from Bazorg about 3 miles in, we hit a road around 5 miles and couldn't see the marker so she came back on us. Chris found it first and I used a lot of energy to catch up to him. Once I did, he dropped me because he was feeling good. However, around 6.7 we hit another road and again couldn't find the marker. I ran up a two track road a bit and turned around which is when I ran into that girl again. Decided to turn around again and ran into Chris. We went up the road again which was dumb, so then we turned around again. Finally, we found the marker. I thought we were close so I started really pushing it and then a guy told us we had another mile, so I slowed down and Chris passed me. I wasn't getting dropped twice, stuck on him and we finished together pretty hard. Fun leg, v tough.