I had no intentions of racing this, just running it as a training run with a pretty good effort. I ran with Adam for the entire race. We did the first 4+ as easy, aerobic miles to get loosened up and then started alternating every other mile as tempo/recovery. For the most part, I felt pretty good. My legs started getting heavy around mile 8, but nothing that would really keep me from doing the pace. Looking back, I should have paid more attention to my nutrition. I wasn't dehydrated by any means, but could have used another gel. I took one from an aid station that tasted awful but I sucked it down anyway. I had to do some work on the last couple miles, but considering this is my longest run of the year (I think), that's neither surprising nor disconcerting. After I got to the top of the hill on mile 12 and got settled back into my breathing, I surprisingly felt really good and in rhythm. We kept our tempo pace from there through the end and finished as expected.

Use some bodyglide. Dumb on my part. Aside from that, I'd take my own gels. I wouldn't do anything differently on the run in terms of pacing. I'll need to go back and check the mile splits to see if/how I fell off on the tempo sections.

Hung out with Mark and Richard for a few minutes until Adam and I went to grab some food and beer (I thought the food was fine). Then I got a massage that was worth a million dollars. After sitting to eat, I pretty much hobbled over there, and when they were through, I was walking completely fine.


Didn't intend to run any faster than I did. My only thought in terms of time was to run faster than an 8'/mile pace and that was accomplished.


Good to see a lot of BTers and others out there. Makes the racing more fun, especially when it was more of a non-race day like this. I thought the race was run well with it starting right on time and there being enough volunteers, etc. I was alays able to get everything I needed at the aid stations and the post-race was good as well. Good race to kick off the season with.