Well, that sucked. With the horrible week I have had with back and hips, which I got fixed yesterday, I almost pulled out of this race due to body just not working. But saw a new chiro, son of chiro I usually go to, and he fixed me up pretty good yesterday. Haven't felt this good in a long time. So I decided to go ahead and run and see what happened. Went with trying to maintain around a 6 min pace for as long as possible. At around mile 7 the wheels fell off the bus. All energy in my legs left, and then the 20 mph headwind started for a big pile of miles. I guess not running much for 2 months tends to lose some endurance. I thought about DNF'ing a few times down the canyon, but figured I'd just keep going to experience a great blowup. And it just kept getting worse. Sour stomach for a few miles, leg cramping the last four. Walked a bunch the last four. I think at mile 22 or so I was still holding onto a sub 3 hour pace, but when the leg cramps started I threw that out the window, and just didn't have the energy to maintain a 6:51 pace anyways. Really glad it is over. I'll have to check the splits and HR later. 1 5:58 170 2 5:52 165 3 6:00 157 4 6:02 160 5 6:06 163 6 6:17 164 7 6:11 165 8 6:49 168 Headwind Started 9 7:00 167 10 6:30 162 11 6:40 161 12 7:04 162 13 6:38 162 14 6:27 162 15 6:14 163 16 8:37 150 Pit stop 17 7:01 164 18 6:51 158 19 6:45 157 20 8:13 145 21 7:27 153 22 8:08 146 23 10:18 126 Cramping started 24 9:41 132 25 9:45 132 26 8:51 133 .35 2:35 146
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