Dear James, Daniel and Emily,
First, the race. I felt it went well, such a huge crowd made it harder to maintain pace when you spend all your time weaving around people. And for some odd reason my music stopped part way through so I had to reset it. I even took a short break around the 2 mile mark and walked a little bit (maybe a quarter of a block). Despite all of that I felt good and the results agreed:
Race results
It takes some digging (there were over 2000 runners) but if you narrow down to my age group you will see me at 69th place, with a chip time of 28:05. Which is much better than my last timed race number of over 30 minutes. And an average pace of 9:03. So all the training of the last several months has really paid off! I was really happy to see that, and gives me the confidence to keep this up and feel that if I follow the training I will be able to handle the longer races.
I took things easy on Sunday with just a 2 mile run up to Mesa with Spotty, the fabulous pace dog. Seriously, I am not sure I could ever wear her out. A friend of mine was talking about his dog just runs along behind him, while Spotty practically drags me along, no matter how long the run.
Now I am ready to resume my normal training schedule with the race out of the way, and any health issues also healed up. I know I have some prep work as my next race is a 5 mile run in the Garden of the Gods which is a quite hilly course.
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