Notes
This was the second race in the series. The course this week was 3.8 miles but tougher than the 4 mile course last week due to some really bad hills. The course starts up a long gradual hill and goes up for the first mile. Immediately, I was positioned in 9th place but passed a guy that had stopped along the trail sometime after the first mile. The second mile isn't quite so hilly and actually more down hill, but amazingly my 1st 2 miles were both 8:25 pace. The 3rd mile has a really bad hill which goes up only for about 0.1 miles but very steep and I can not run the entire way. Once you get to the top it is mostly downhill to the finish. Ran 3rd mile in 8:51 pace and the last 0.8 miles at 7:36 pace so finished strong in 31:55, 8:22 pace, and 8th overall. At this point I am 5th place overall in the series out of 26 and only 9 points behind the leader.