TOTNT - Riverdale Rally Route
The conditions were perfect... only improvement possible would have been the addition of daylight. I'll admit right off the top that I was shooting for a sub 24min run. I'd been thinking about it all day while sitting at work, knowing that the conditions were right and the snow would be here tomorrow.
When I got out there I went balls-to-wall and didn't even check my splits on the way through the loops for fear of subconsciously adjusting the pain threshold for the remainder of the run. I even recall running up the final 100m with the mental image of me trying to outrun a 24min pace bunny catching up, just to make sure I was emptying the tanks. I thought I had it for sure, only to be surprised to see I was a second slower than my PB when I finally caught my breath and checked the watch ...argh!!! What does it take!?!
...the one consolation is that after getting home and checking my previous runs, this was infact a new PB (albeit a minor change; 2.63seconds off). Not sure if I can add the hundredths of a second on the splits page.
Previous PB was run last November 29th.
Conditions: (Level 1) -5deg, frozen hardpack ground, no snow cover ...perfect.
West Loop: 10:58.55 (Cm. 10:58.55)
East Loop: 10:45.20 (Cm. 21:43.75)
UOTV: 02:30.80 (Cm. 24:14.55)