Another disappointing race for me. I think I'm a little burnt out and need more sleep. This course has a lot of uphill. Lisa ran with me for the first 8 or 9 miles then I told her to leave me. I followed a guy in bright orange shoes on a wrong turn. I didn't think he was going the right way, but I followed him anyway. That cost us at least a minute. My splits from my Garmin were 8:32, 8:24, 8:01, 8:17, 9:02, 8:07, 8:22, 8:11, 8:05, 8:46, 7:56, 8:22, 7:48, and 7:42 pace for the last .33 (I'm guessing the extra .23 was from the wrong turn). Average pace 8:18
The funniest part of this race was during the awards. My friend Michelle Campbell did awesome. She was the overall female winner with a time of 1:32. Anyway, she is also in my age group. They tried to give her the medal for being 1st in our age group. She told them no they needed to take her out and give it to the next person which was me. They came up to her after and told her there were only 3 ladies in our age group and so there wasn't anyone to give the 3rd place medal to. I just thought that was so funny. | 