Notes
2016 Mayor's Cup w/ GBTC.
Bleh, this was baddd. A race where I underperformed from my expectations by a pretty good margin, which is always frustrating. It was a windy day, on the colder side of what it has been, but the course was in good shape. Wanted to be relaxed and run conservatively the first two miles and then attack the second half of the race. Wasn't really able to execute the plan. Although I put myself pretty far back from the beginning, still got dragged through the mile very quickly (~5:20). Was telling myself to be sure I was controlled the second mile, but still ended up putting in some extra effort to stay with the group right ahead of me. Felt strong on Bear Cage, came through 2 miles just over 11 minutes - great. Felt like I went to work in the Wilderness Loop, passed a number of people and most of the 3rd mile was pretty strong... then somewhere before mile 3, the wheels came off. Didn't feel super spent aerobically, but quads were really fatigued. Mentally I feel like I worked pretty hard to stay engaged, but was just fighting to stay with a pretty slow group, and ultimately they still got away from me. Caleb went by on Bear Cage the second time, had a lame kick to try and stay with him but there wasn't much there.
Poop. Much work to be done yet