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Was this another PR year?

I knew I was close to my PR goal as I kept checking the time on the watch during the 5km descent on the slippery, gravelly fire trail. I felt the confidence in my time as I descended with a high center of gravity and high knees, watching carefully to avoid ruts in the trail and golf ball size chunks of loose rock. That fine line between running fast, and running gingerly over loose ground. A slip here wouldn’t be the end of my race, it would just slow my time. This is a race after all, a race against my own time, but a race none the less. Anything I can do to prevent losing time is a good thing to do.

I had taken care if that issue with those pesky lows on this course during my training runs.
Read all about that here in a previous post. 
The uphill section went well. I felt strong and quick. I slowed down to my recovery paces where I needed to, and turned on the jets on the flat parts to make up for lost time. The race felt just like a training day. Only, this time with a lot more people around.

Excitement at the finish

Runners crossing the finish line immediately grab their watch to stop the race time on the wrist. This is the first clue as to wether or not this will be a PR time or not. There’s also an official clock at the finish line during timed races, but this is known as “gun” time or race time. The timer that started when the gun went off at the start, not when the individual runner crossed the chip timer transponder. Those official results will be tabulated later as official times, but until those numbers come in, all I have is what I see on my wrist.

My Suunto watch recorded a time of 1:12:50 
Last year’s official time was 1:13:23
I knew this number going into today’s race, hence my excitement from the picture above.

But, alas, it was not.

The officail results came back with a time of 1:14:06
43 whole seconds over my PR time.
Bummer.

There’s now a new training goal for next year!

Here’s the Suunto movie recording the terrain map during the race:

Check out my 2019 Verdugo Mountains Training Blog here

FOOTNOTE:

Unfortunately, due to the heavy 2021 winter storms, the trail was washed out in many sections and this race has since been discontinued 🙁

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