A fair day, but course was very hilly and windy, The course reminded me of the Striders 10 miler fo those of you who ran. I ran much better the second half than the first. The course starts pankcake flat for the first 3 miles, and than has some short steep climbs. About the four and half mile mark you start the climb to the Golden Gate Bridge, it is a pretty long climb and steep. You keep climbing until the half way point of the bridge and then decend down to the turnaround. On the way back across the bridge you are climbing back across into the wind and then decend hard off the bridge followed immediately by an aggressive one mile climb to just past the 10 mile point. Another hard decent to mile 11 and then 2 miles of steady climbing with the last .2 miles down to the finish. Race start is 5:30, an early start. I warm-up about three miles with hopes of also getting some mileage in. At start, I felt a little sluggish just hard to get moving, but I figured it would pass. Came through the mile in 5:48 a little slower than it felt but not bad. The wind was in our face the entire first 4 miles, not blowing hard, but enough to feel you were working to push through it. The next couple miles proved to be the same, not really moving well. After the first of the climbs I was a little demoralized but kept at it. As I started the climb to the bridge I started to move a little better and by the time I got to the other end of the bridge I was moving well. I powered my way across the bridge into the wind and started the hard drop toward the water. The climb to mile 10 is brutal, but I never felt horrible. Decending to mile 11 felt great, but the climbing for the next few miles felt like I was going backwards. I finished hard and felt good at the finish. I finished feeling like I could have run much harder than I did and that frustrates me. I know I was way to conservative at the start and could have run the first 5 miles much faster, but got comfortable and lazy. Overall I feel ok about the race, but I had expectations of running 1:18 or better and I think if I had been more agressive from the start I may have had a chance, but this seems to be the pattern of my racing right now. Mile1
| 5:49
| 5:49 | Mile 2
| 5:51 | 11:40 | Mile 3
| 6:11 | 17:51 | Mile 4
| 6:07 | 23:59 | Mile 5
| 5:57 | 29:56 | Mile 6
| 6:55 | 36:52 | Mile 7
| 6:00 | 42:52 | Mile 8
| 5:52 | 48:45 | Mile 9
| 6:16 | 55:01 | Mile 10
| 6:35 | 1:01:37 | Mile 11
| 5:44 | 1:07:22 | Mile 12
| 6:42 | 1:14:04 | Mile 13
| 6:38 | 1:20:43 | | .2 | 1:05 | 1:21:49 |
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