Eight Mile

With apologies to Eminem's brief film career this was the real 8 mile heh(I actually havent seen it). I was finishing the papers at 730 and some random guy asked me to drive him so he could move stuff to public storage. So I did which subsequently meant I was unsurprisingly getting to the race at 9:01 AM haha. So a nice 200m warmup to the start and off we went. I was trying to run 6:00 pace and hit the first mile in 602 which was good. The first 2 1/2 miles I was chasing ultramarathoner extraordinaire Serge and caught him on the first major climb- after going thru 2m in 12:00 even which was good. He repassed me on the long downhill for a while but by 3m(18:16) I had gotten a little gap. The third mile was long and the fourth mile was short as even with the downhill I didnt hit 530 haha. Then stayed steady and ground up the hill from 4.5-5.5 but this was the hardest part of the course obv and at 6 I was 36:33 so a 12:48 2 mile. Serge did a good job of keeping me honest in the last 2 miles which were covered in 12:17. So 48:50 total which was fine for the hilly and rainy day with no warmup. Karsten Brown won btw he was fairly far in front- on the way back some guy told me he was 25 sec ahead haha when it was actually more like 45.

So I need to get better obv if im going to run 58 min in 6 weeks but thaat is perfectly doable obv. That was the point of doing this race. My calves were sore again which is not an issue right now but it is worrisome for doing road races(esp longer ones) with flats. Another comical thing which I cant decide if its good or bad is that during this race I was thinking about periodically what I would say about the race on this site. Possibly use it for good motivation as you dont want to have to write something crappy. There were several other things but I cant remember them now haha. A 3 hour nap will do that. Oh one thing is that I stupidly and again unsurprisingly stayed up and wathced the whole ravens game last night which meant 3 hrs of sleep. I then had a fairly solid performance but you dont want to get into the mode of thinking you can run well of off low sleep. Also I didnt really run that well- it was ok but if I had more rest could possibly have been better. Anyway now Im off to clean the house and possibly go to g store. Well see how the legs respond as well as the road makes your quads feel like cement so hopefully the minutes on Tuesday will be good. Hopefully not too muddy as well but itll be fine either way.