Sunday was the Silicon Labs Marathon Relay and once again Team Mac was there to race. I was on a team with Aaron, Travis, Stuart and Jeff competing in the Open Men's division. We also had an Open Women's team and a combo team. Our team came in 10th overall and 4th in our division (8 secs off the podium). The girls dominated and won their division.
Since St. George is getting so close, Mac had me run one of the 5k legs. I had planned to run hard without hurting myself. 13 days out from a marathon is not a good time to go injure yourself. I kept telling Jeff he was going to have to run extra fast to make up for my leg. Apparently, I'm in pretty good shape because I ended up running 5k in 18:49 (6:03/mile) according to Run-Far's time for my leg. That's a PR by 35 seconds. It felt good to run like that without feeling like I was on the edge.
I'm still amazed by people that don't run the tangents in races. What part of the word "race" do they not understand? The object is to finish as fast as possible, which in my mind means running the shortest distance the course gives you. I saw so many people running wide around curves or following the lanes like they were in a car.
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