DATE: January 24, 2010
LOCATION: Cedar River Trail, near Maple Valley, Washington
After running the Pigtails 50k on Saturday, I was looking forward to Brian Pendleton's 50k. This was a low key small, fat ass style 50k. It was a simple double out-and-back. I arrived early and waited for some of the other runners to show up. Very few runners from Saturday did this race, but other Maniacs who could not do the race on Saturday did this one instead.
I started a little before the race was suppose to start, but it's a fat ass so it doesn't really matter. I started running and felt pretty good, I decided to push the pace and see what I had for the day. In the first quarter I ran a 1:12:24, I felt this was really good. I wondered at that point if I could break 5 hours. I figured I could but it just depended on how much I would slow down.
When I got back to the start area after the first out-and-back I had run a 2:25:48, which made me think a sub-5 was really possible. I didn't take much of a break and headed back out. Sometimes the second out-and-back is the hardest, but I pushed and continued to run a fast pace. At the second turn around I was at 3:40:23, with just 7.75 more miles.
In that last stretch I pushed and finished in 4:58:17, which was good for 2nd place out of 17 runners and a sub-5 50k. I was happy and enjoyed some chili until some more runners finished. The weather turned out to be dry, but chilly. Rain hit later after I had finished. It ended up pouring down rain the whole drive home.
LOCATION: Cedar River Trail, near Maple Valley, Washington
After running the Pigtails 50k on Saturday, I was looking forward to Brian Pendleton's 50k. This was a low key small, fat ass style 50k. It was a simple double out-and-back. I arrived early and waited for some of the other runners to show up. Very few runners from Saturday did this race, but other Maniacs who could not do the race on Saturday did this one instead.
I started a little before the race was suppose to start, but it's a fat ass so it doesn't really matter. I started running and felt pretty good, I decided to push the pace and see what I had for the day. In the first quarter I ran a 1:12:24, I felt this was really good. I wondered at that point if I could break 5 hours. I figured I could but it just depended on how much I would slow down.
When I got back to the start area after the first out-and-back I had run a 2:25:48, which made me think a sub-5 was really possible. I didn't take much of a break and headed back out. Sometimes the second out-and-back is the hardest, but I pushed and continued to run a fast pace. At the second turn around I was at 3:40:23, with just 7.75 more miles.
In that last stretch I pushed and finished in 4:58:17, which was good for 2nd place out of 17 runners and a sub-5 50k. I was happy and enjoyed some chili until some more runners finished. The weather turned out to be dry, but chilly. Rain hit later after I had finished. It ended up pouring down rain the whole drive home.
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