Thu- Good b-ball w Penny, played 3-2 zone to beat team, hustled and made shots around basket
Fri- sore, did longer loosener run along S. Jordan canal, hopped fence, then back, enjoyable, 5M
Sat- 6 am race, 1.5 w/u, started out about 10th running out of the park, by the time we got onto Redwood road, I was keeping pace with a guy and we maintained. Steve Olsen wasn't going to be caught, though the 2nd place guy looked like he wanted to try, then a longer haired guy, then me and my partner in legs. 1st mile marker was off, I had 5:30, then I think I had close to 13:00 thru 2 miles. We went up the Redwood hill north and were 50 yards off 3rd guy. On the downhill I edged up and caught him by the time we turned East. He complimented me and I opened up my pace. 19:45 at 5K. Coming back S thru miles 3-5 the 2nd place guy popped out of a yard only 45 seconds ahead, he'd made an unwanted pitstop--he was having stomach issues. He even walked a little so I vowed to make an effort to catch him but when he did run his pace was faster. About that time we hit the 5Krs and I lost sight of him. It was good to be passing the 5Krs, you couldn't help but wonder though if they thought you were a late racer or if they knew you'd already run more than twice as far as they had. I felt like I did slow down the last mile, closed in 20:15 for last 5K. BK was there, he'd run 5K in 18:00 for 4th, 3 guys hitting 17:30. Olsen was about 35:15, he's won the Grand Slam 2 years ago, I was a minute behind 2nd but had to report my own time since I didn't have a comp chip. H had picked up my pre-reg packet. 1M c/d Good race, felt pretty good about my effort, maybe 85-90%.
Then went to watch Murray 5K, rollerbladed and had a great time watching Teren pull away last mile for 14:40, Nate hold on to 6th even though recovering from injury in 16:00, Jamal 4th, talked to him, he's excited about his racing smarter and better now. Talked to Coach Jameson for a while afterward. Then rollerbladed the W.Jordan parade where we passed out 2500 water bottles; we could have paced ourselves better, we had an 1 1/2 hr wait at the beginning and I was scolded by a guy who said I got his baby wet. Pool party at D&A's, good stuff. |