??? 1:09:15 [3] 5.6 mi (12:22 / mi)
Third day of the competition and 1st of two world ranking events. Today's race was half the distance of yesterday's but hurt twice as much. I started out too fast because I really wanted to do well today and after overshooting the first few controls I realized they put almost all of the climb on the course in one consecutive string of controls going up the mountain (which was essentially like trying to run up one of the firebreaks to the house of dreams in the middle of a race) so after cussing at myself to the course designers i made my way up it and then finished the course. My ankles were sore afterwards because once we came back down the mountain it was on a rocky hillside and the footing wasn't the best.
It took 1:09:15 to run around 5.5 miles on the course
