Monday, March 9, 2009

Leg 37

I ran Leg 37 starting in Mason Park. I think this one was a little payback for getting the fast downwind leg yesterday. This leg ran out of the park into the neighborhoods. It made 4-5 turns in the first couple miles and then goes straight on Galveston Rd for 2.4 miles. Straight into the wind. I could feel myself fading but I kept seeing slower runners in the distance and just tried to reel them in. The wind was just killing me and I knew I was slowing down. I didn't want to look at my Garmin to know how fast I was going. I just wanted to catch the people I could see.

I could see the finish from quite a ways off. The adrenaline helped me pick it up some and catch the Boy Scout team. I handed off to Linda (one of the few times I saw her during the race) and was ready to get in the van. The watch said 4.4 miles at 6:48/mile.

This was a hard leg for me because of where it fell in the race. Earlier in the race it wouldn't have been that bad. I know some of the others had much more difficult legs. It wasn't too long and didn't have many hills in it, but the miles and paces I had already run and the lack of sleep combined to make it feel pretty tough.

I also ran this one in Jean-Marie's shirt because we got them mixed up at the last rest point. We had all rinsed out our shirts and hung them to dry. I grabbed the wrong one when I left. I like my shirts a little bigger, so I knew something was up when I put it on and it was pretty tight. I had a little chafing going on during my run.

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