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Race report

I arrived about an hour before the race. Got all registrated. Pinned my number on. Attempted to warm up. I'm not that good at these types of races so I was just guessing on how to warm up.

I had a good starting position. I lined up on the right side since I figured there would be a bottleneck hitting the tight left-hander just shortly after the start. I didn't start out too hard because I was afraid that I would blow up. I settled in around 20th until we hit the first serious climb (pretty early in the race). I passed a few people and had the leaders in sight. I tried to keep them in sight but I started to lose them in some of the single track.

With about half the race remaining I was in noman's land in 15th. I couldn't see anyone ahead nor behind me. I set a pace at about 85% and see how long I could hold it. As I started to tire, I could see the finish ahead of me so I tried to pick it up a little to finish strong.

This was the first race of the season for me and I felt pretty happy with how I finished and performed. I'll pin up next week for sure.

I finished the 5k trail run in 25:23.


I bet you were thinking I was talking about one of those bicycling races.

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GoBigGreen said…
Nice, welcome to the REAL off season.
3:20 PM
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