Notes
CBEGM co-founder took the words right out of my mouth on the start of this race: A complete cluster-fu*!. Kind of amazing they can't clean that part of the race up to standard.
Not much to say on this race. Dropped the 53 y/o Men's State 2M record from 12:35 to 12:01. Very happy to have the record on the current training volume/intensity. Continue to lose some speed/steps but evidently everyone else is too. Never felt like entirely warmed up during the race today but difficult to do with feel-like temps hovering at 20 degrees F. Finished 2nd in the 50-54 group with the winner (50 y/o) running 11:50.
Mile splits of 5:57/5:57/ then 7 seconds for final .02-.03 mile. Start of the race caused some less than stellar tangents by both MoBram and myself so added a bit of distance.
Finished 23rd out of 393 runners. Bramlett sets 57 y/o State record, Carol Winter sets 56 y/o State record and Tom Shumacher takes 10 min (wow) off the 78 y/o State record. Mission accomplished with the Quadfecta and what we were hoping to do if all the stars aligned.
Last race of the 2018 year. Didn't race much but ran national class age-graded times twice on certified courses and had some good placings on all the races on less than stellar training. Got book end awards from the Azalea Dogwood race as well as the Dutchman Dash races.