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Wednesday Jun 18, 2008 #
Running warm up/down 10:42 [1] 0.88 mi (12:10 / mi)
shoes: Merrell Overdrive
Warmup for trail race.
Running race 37:46 [5] 3.52 mi (10:44 / mi) +722ft 8:59 / mi
max:160 shoes: Merrell Overdrive
Dirt Cheap Trail race, at Ellison Wetlands. Very hilly, nearly all single-track. Distance was stated to be 4.5 miles; Forerunner said it was about a mile short, continuing the trend of trail race distances being far shorter than advertised. Still, it was a very strenuous race.
I ran this one pretty hard, unlike the previous two races of the Dirt Cheap series. I felt recovered from the Buffalo Marathon, and I don't have any race this weekend to taper for, so I figured I might as well go hard in this one.
To motivate myself, I picked two people who I'm generally close to, with the goal to stay with or beat them. One was Wilt Alston, who I beat in the first race of this series, but he beat me in two subsequent trail races. The other was Patty Lyons, who I'm usually close to but she always beats me.
I was 50% successful -- I passed Wilt about halfway through the race, and it seemed clear that he wasn't going to pass me back, and he didn't. I beat him by just over a minute, I believe. Patty, on the other hand, I didn't even see after about 0.5 miles into the race, when she was around 15 people ahead of me. She beat me by around a minute, very decisively.
Finished 53rd out of 128 overall; 1st out of only 3 in my age group.
Congratulations to Patty -- she was 3rd female, 40th out of 128 overall, and easily won her age group.
I ran this one pretty hard, unlike the previous two races of the Dirt Cheap series. I felt recovered from the Buffalo Marathon, and I don't have any race this weekend to taper for, so I figured I might as well go hard in this one.
To motivate myself, I picked two people who I'm generally close to, with the goal to stay with or beat them. One was Wilt Alston, who I beat in the first race of this series, but he beat me in two subsequent trail races. The other was Patty Lyons, who I'm usually close to but she always beats me.
I was 50% successful -- I passed Wilt about halfway through the race, and it seemed clear that he wasn't going to pass me back, and he didn't. I beat him by just over a minute, I believe. Patty, on the other hand, I didn't even see after about 0.5 miles into the race, when she was around 15 people ahead of me. She beat me by around a minute, very decisively.
Finished 53rd out of 128 overall; 1st out of only 3 in my age group.
Congratulations to Patty -- she was 3rd female, 40th out of 128 overall, and easily won her age group.