Well not a lot to say but that I guess I was sandbagging in my last post a little bit.
I went down the night before and stayed with the wife at the firehouse at the start line where she works. This is so nice to have this option. In the next few years I plan on doing the double and this will hopefully still be an option for free housing that weekend.
Anyways, I started in wave 2 and just cruised on a moderate hard pace up the hill. I did not want to put any real hard effort until after I broke treeline. I caught my first 1st Wave person about 3 miles up and for the next 10 miles to the finish it was 2 1/2 hours of saying "on your left", that got old real quick, especially the A-holes who thought because they were in the 1st wave that they did not have to share the trail or did not want to get passed by a second waver. There was a couple of times I had to elbow my way past someone.
Anyway ended with a 3:03:52 for 60th overall and 11th in my age group. I think that if I would not have had to pass so many people and if I would not have stopped for a beer 1/4 mile from the top of the mountain I would have broke 3 hours. There will always be a next time.
Results can be seen here.
No doubt you would have broke 3. Way to surpass expectations!
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ReplyDeleteYou put yourself at a 3:45-4 hr pace and you stopped for a beer and made it up in 3:03? Definitely sandbagging! Regardless, congrats on the great time. What's next?
ReplyDeleteI am not sure what is next, I have been thinking about the 50 miler at Bear Creek Lake Park, or the AR up at Golden Gate in Sept. I want to try and do one race a month if I can. How about you?
ReplyDeleteI still remember running with you up Bergen Peak and you joking about being a "slow ultra guy." No more, my friend. That excuse must now be filed away for use another day, er year!
ReplyDeleteHa Jim... I need to come up there and run Bergen Peak with you again soon. I was running those a lot when I lived in Lakewood and I really like it up there. Good to see that you are recovering so well.
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