Running race 1:36:33 [3] 15.0 km (6:26 / km) +111m 6:12 / km
shoes: Nike Pegasus+ 26 GTX
The extra people in the fastest sell-out of the Boilermaker took much of the fun out of my race today: my slowest race effort ever recorded on AttackPoint. I set out to match my 15k split in October at 9:04/mile pace and was a full minute slower per mile. The only decent mile was the downhill mile 5. There was no room to run for the entire course. I couldn't even stay on course to run over the mats at the 5k mark. I missed half my water stations because of the crowd of racing-pretenders in the way. I didn't see any Gatorade stations. In the finishing chute, I expected to miss out on the sandwiches etc but I couldn't even fight my way to some water or popsicles. However, en route to the sweat check there was no problem getting beer. So I actually sipped a beer (for survival: calories/hydration) on my walk back to the car. I expect to learn that temperatures made it the coolest race in years but I found the sweat just dripping out of me from the get go.
44.5%
7477/11360 461/594
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