Highlights from this race:
First time going off course and actually being lost without knowing it until the end!!! I realized when I finished that I had probably gone about 2 miles extra, the course was 16.9 miles, since I was running with Greta to start but didn't want to walk the hills like she did so I just took it easy and went along. Well I didn't even know it but when I finished she had already been done for about 10min or more, so I was pretty shocked. Not only did I get lost somehow and did an extra 2 miles I didn't even know I was lost and somehow found the finish, it was just bizarre.
We were running easy 10min pace so I would have done about 3 hours for the run, but ended up running 3:19min...Oh well it was a fun but super challenging course with lots and lots of hills and on trails. It was fun they had a little 'smurf village' with was in the woods and had some logs to climb over and a hill at the end which was up and down (I walked that hill).
I actually felt good on this run, with the marathon the weekend before and the Big Woods the weekend before I was a bit worried but was surprised how good my legs felt. I felt much worse after the marathon but most likely because I took this race easy.
Experiment Done: I am able to do back to back to back races after the Ironman, good results not too sure if PR's but I was able to do almost a 19mile run after the marathon. I would have never thought I would be able to do it!!
No more real racing for the season. Happy and sad about that, but I need a break =)
