The weather started out great cool and clear in the low
60's. I started out good and kept myself
from going out to fast. The first 4
miles were beautiful forested dirt roads.
After that the rest of the race was on the frontage road which didn’t
have any shade. Most of the race was downhill
I think 3000' net loss, but all that downhill really beats on your legs. I was worried because I had been having shin
splints but they never seemed to bother me during this run. I felt pretty good at the half way mark but I
was over heating even though I was running at an easy pace. It wasn't until the last 3 miles that I started
having real problems. The heat was
really starting to get to me at after 10 miles I actually got sunburned (I am
pretty sure I put sunscreen on but I don't remember much from this
morning). I think that getting a sunburn
during the race was what drained my energy.
10 miles was the farthest I had time to train for I wanted to get up to
12 but we took a trip to Kansas were I got in 0 miles. We got in Georgetown at around 12 miles and I
was happy to see we were in town. But
there was actually some uphill, very easy hills, but after running down for so
long these small hills really hurt. Half
a mile to go, I was all most there, I
was sweating a lot and I felt like a diesel locomotive slow and heavy but I was
going to make it to the station.
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