![]() ![]() ![]() I picked it up nicely for the last three miles, though. So, I guess I came out fast and slowed for miles 2 and 3, then warmed up and got a little faster until mile 6, when I started getting tired. ![]() Up against my limits, I always feel out of shape - it doesn’t matter what actual speed I’m running. Once again I was reminded that racing my hardest never feels good. I ran it hard, focusing on the race and on staying in the moment, rather than on the scenery or on worrying about whether I could finish. There were some unpleasant headwinds on the course. I was finally parked at 6:15, which didn’t leave me a lot of time to pick up my bib number and use the bathroom before the 6:45 start. I tried to get up early to beat the traffic out to Sauvie Island, but I failed: even at 5:40 in the morning, there was still a very long line of cars backed up on the road to the start. July 4 was a Wednesday this year, so that’s when the race was. That was a 1:31:47, a 7:01/mile average pace. (In the past, a 40-mile week was often a 20-mile run on Saturday plus twenty more miles spread across four weekdays this time around I’m running six or seven days a week without the really long run.) Based on some recent training runs, I thought I might have a shot at a PR at the Foot Traffic Half, the same race where, back in ’09, I set my previous best. I’ve been getting back into shape over the last few months, working my way back to 40-mile weeks while focusing on speed instead of distance. ![]()
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