Notes
Brew run with Paul. Pretty hot day, ~81 degrees. Was hoping to run between 5:40 and 5:50 pace, at least under 6:00 pace. Wasn't really sure of what the course was- thought it would be flat, but it was a lot of rolling hills. Wanted to go out slow, so let a bunch of people go ahead at the beginning, but still came through the first mile in 5:37. After that I slowed down a lot- splits of 5:59, 6:30. 6:46, and 6:21 for miles. I definitely lost focus on the second mile and didn't focus on finding someone to run with and sticking right on them. Somewhat of a disappointing race, but I guess it wasn't terrible. I came through 3 miles in 18:07, so as far as bad races have gone for me (historically), this one was better through 3 miles even though it was a much longer race in total. An introduction to longer races for me- I definitely need to really work at longer aerobic efforts, esp. tempo runs, for the benefit of the mental focus as well as the physical conditioning. Mostly it was my legs (quads) that hurt during the race. Most likely have the 5k time trial in two weeks, hopefully will be able to run well in that.