2.12m @ 7:21 including strides for warmup
13.19m@5:30 (5:32, 5:38, 5:35, 5:32, 5:33, 5:33, 5:30, 5:31, 5:18, 5:26, 5:36, 5:30, 5:21, 4:42 pace last .19)
Out and back course from Columbia point Marina past WSU satellite campus and back. Slightly windy the whole way, picked up pretty strong miles 11-12. Light rain/drizzle throughout. Nice cuz the weather made the bugs less active... only swallowed a few.
It was a good effort, but not 100%. I wanted to beat the CR (or at least the fastest time I could find back till 2001, I'm not sure they really keep track of the CR) from Jacob Puzey in 2009 (1:13:05)... but I also wasn't sure of my fitness or how well recovered I was from Thursday's workout (I thought the race was next weekend). So I went out on 1:13ish pace thinking if it felt too hard I could slow it down and readjust my goal to either sub 1:14 or 1:15. Luckily it felt pretty smooth throughout! The last couple miles took some concentration but not as much as my best half-mary's in Utah. The combination of rain and short socks caused a bloody achilles that bothered me from about mile 5 to 10...after that my mind was more occupied with keeping pace.
Fun race! I was happy to be able to meet lots of people in the Tri-cities running scene and hope to keep making more friends and running more races as often as possible!
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