Running race 53:15 [4] 10.57 km (5:02 / km) +260m 4:29 / km
ahr:169 max:182 shoes: R-NB Black
Typical Ron Horn Mt. Penn trail run mostly on rocky trails. With the added pleasure of this being at night (8pm start), with a thunderstorm that turned trails into creeks on the 2nd half (after a dry start.) And he attracted over 500 people to do this race...
HR was typically 170-175 on the uphills, then dropped to 160-165 on the downhills, as skill in staying upright was more of a limiting factor than fitness in those segments..
Was 10th for much of the middle of the race, but didn't push hard enough in the 3rd 4th of the race, and while I moved to 9th at the 8.5km point, that was at the head of a pack of 5 runners that had formed right behind me.
Thunderstorm hit in earnest at 8.5km, for the rest of the race it was hard to see 10 feet, and we went from "hard to see the bumps in the trail" to "hard to see the trail, or creek, or whatever it is..." And I got passed, by 4 guys on the downhill at speeds I was unwilling to push given the invisibility of what my feet where going to land on. They had a 10 second gap on me after a long slow downhill on a gravel/grass road, but then we had to scramble up to some mud, and eventually boulders, and I could see the guys ahead slipping on the mud. O'shoes to the rescue (still slipping a bit) I closed the gap quite a bit in the muddy uphill section, and then pulled out over some worse boulders to the side of the 'marked route" through the boulders, to move up to 2nd of the pack of 5. Scrambling hard I was right on the back of the guy in 9th, and as we hit the last 50m of uphill grass, we both pushed extra hard. His high gear was just barely ahead of mine, and one of the last guys I passed managed to sprint by on the right dartting in front of me at the finish line (finishing 0.3 seconds ahead - so I ended up 11th, though less than 1 second from 9th - just missing my top 10 goal. grrrr.
Still quite happy with the effort and result, incl. no hard falls or injury, hopefully some energy left for tomorrow morning's O-race, a pace just a bit faster than Angelica's tempo run earlier today (on a paved, ~1% climb loop), and a finish just 4.5 minutes behind the winner - less than 10%, which seems in reach of what a few months to a year of solid training could do to me.
Running warm up/down 17:00 [2] 3.0 km (5:40 / km) +20m 5:29 / km
shoes: R-NB Black
Warmup (a bit fractured), and a 7 minute cooldown...