I am not quite up to speed after running the marathon hard in January, so this was a really hard effort for current run fitness. I was still able to pull off a PR, but the entire race was LT +. I was fine at the start, good start, held a fast pace for the first 4 miles, the hill took some wind out of my sails so that by mile 5 I was somewhat flat. My HR was still in the range I wanted, but I was slowing down some. After the 2nd hill I was still flat, just maintaining and slower than I wanted to be for a PR. The last 3 miles were really suck it up and ge it done time. I was able to pick up the pace on each mile building from mile 7 on, with a lot of mental effort with the last bit of the race being faster than at any other point in the race.

Just bad timing in my training, kind of just post recovery from mary. Next here I will be in the middle of peak mary training and am hoping for another PR. The field is amazingly fast, winner ran a 5:06 pace with the top 30 ish runners faster than a 6:00 pace. Quite a bit of heat in this run.

Got fluids, some grapes, half a pbj, walked around a bit and drove home.


Just where I was in my run training a bit subpar in my recovery, build. I got a blister at mile 4 that was annoying, but didn't really affect performance.


Very scenic race, draws the top competitors in the north state, even though it is a smaller race. Huge metal effort.