Notes
DEST relay leg 11
This was pretty tough. Started off feeling tired but okay, but couldn't hang on to the sub-6:30 pace that I thought was reasonable going in. I guess this isn't THAT much slower but it felt so hard for what it was. It made me feel a little better hearing that other people struggled with this leg and that, despite what the elevation profile provided by the race showed, there were some long, if gradual, uphill stretches. At the time I thought my GPS might have been acting up but after 3 slow splits in a row I accepted that I was just running slower than I thought. Definitely felt my lack of fitness on this one. I'd call this a C+ day for me, but probably B+/A- effort. This really makes me want to run this race with some real fitness next year to redeem myself a bit.