Notes
ok here is how the race went.
I started with Jeannie. And mile 1 was mile 1...both had no real idea of pace as building was effecting it. 2 was right on target. 3 also right on target, some where in there me and Jeannie got seperated. Weaving threw people and I saw our mile average was 8:30 and I knew I didnt want to start that yet. I was already weating and I didnt want to kill myself to keep up. So I said Just let her go. I was sticking to same effort. Mile 4 I did about half mile check and thought I was still doing 8:45...I wasnt my mile average was 9:23...Yet felt hard. I tried a surge and at the end of the mile was still feeling really hard for that pace. So I said to myself...keep trying just a bad mile. But then it was still same effort and pace. So by the time I saw Rob and Brian I had decided that it was not worth killing myself and to just run easy.
I kept to the 10 min training pace besides the water stops I walked threw them and DRANK water. I took my gels at 6 and 10
mile 11 little before and during I got a really DEEP cramp in my left glute. I walked it out and tried to massage it. It bothered me the rest of the day (but gone now)
I tried really hard to pick it up the last 1.1 and it took me awhile to finally get there
This had to be my most mental f'd up race I have ever done. I am not mad. In fact I think the funk I am in was a big part of it. I had no fight. No drive to run.
Also want to note that I would sweat and it dried super fast too. Was so weird. I put on body glide (the roller one) But I have chaffing on my butt, lower back, middle of my back the size of my hand, on the bottom side of both boobs but not the under boob.
I also ate a jolly rancher the last mile of the race. I just needed that sugar I could tell I was feeling low in the same way I have when I got the ocular migraine.
Atleast I finished this state. But this was not my favorite race. I think I will stop making goal races that I fly to.