Master runner

Ran with the Scott's on the trail..oped out at 9 miles due to chili contest...man was there some good chili.

am- ran on the dread mill for the first time in about a yr...figured i would give my legs a break from pounding on the street for this week due to my up coming Tulsa Run race Sat.  did 2 mile warm up and then did some 1 min on 1 min recovery for 2 miles and cooled down the rest. dropped a few pounds of sweat.

pm - took Sophie out for a 1.5 jog round the hood. she did real good...8:22 pace with a pee and poop stop. 

had a real nice crew that met out at bluff creek at 4 this evening. Roger, Blake, Frankie, Eric, Scott and I took of and got a nice 3 mile warm-up in Scott continued on with an easy run and the rest of us did some warm up stretches and then did a 5 x 800m with a full 800m recovery. 

PM run 8 @ 7:13 pace

did a quick 6 on the dread... short day at work staying off my feet getting ready for tulsa run 15k tomorrow.

Met Roger, Courtney and Blake at MC-D's at 6 and we drove on up to T-town. We got our warm up and stretches done and headed to the starting line, where we saw Scott Smith and he informed us that they were planning on starting the masters race 2 minutes before the actual open race, to our suprise we did line up and take off 2 minutes early...Would have been nice if they would have mentioned this in a e-mail / starting instructions or something. 

My race plan was pretty simple... run better than i did last yr.. I took off and no one hopped out front so i just took off and used the down hill to my advantage. It felt weird not having anyone in front of me at a race that big. I was quickly swallowed up by the huge kenyan pack and one white boy AKA Scott Smith at the 5k mark, my watch was off (probably because of the buildings) and i didn't have a clue as to what my time i was running till the 5k. the clock showed 14:28ish as they went through and i was right on with my 5k PR 16:30. 

After the pack went by me I had 2 Master runners go by just before the turn around they were both in my age group.. when we turn around we had some wind to our back and i closed the gap on one of the masters but he caught a second wind and I ran solo all the way up to the hill where the open woman runner caught me and we ran most of the way up the hill together and she dropped the hammer on me. I did get 3rd place money overall (200 bones) and PR'ed at every distance 5k-15km. I was pleased with my race today but left room for improvement for sure.