We had a nice crew from OKC make our way up to Tulsa for the Tulsa Run..J-Hat, Joe Mitro and Myself were all in the 15k championship race and took home 2nd place money for team. (We nudged out Atlanta track club by 30 sec).
The race was pretty much the same course as last year but made one small change due to construction. Still a really tough course. I did manage to get a PR out of the course.
During warmup I noticed my watch battery was dead and made the decision to just go watchless. It felt mighty weird lining up with out it. I took off and a dude from Indiana quickly jumped out front and took off. We made our way to the mile marker right at 5:00 and had a big ole hill to climb...I wasn't too worried because I new the hill was going to take some back and it did. I made my way up to the top and at 3k could hear some foot steps behind me and 2 guys from Cal Coast asked me if I knew the dude that took off. I said no and they seemed to think he would come back...welp he didn't.
I tucked in behind them for a bit and they gapped me coming out of 4-5 miles.. then they had split up and I caught up to one of them at mile 6 on the river bridge and he really put a good surge on me. I tried to make up ground on the latter hills but ended up staying stuck in 4th.
Weather was really nice.
I saw that Cal Coast had 3 relay guys in and Atlanta had 2...I looked down the road and saw Joe coming in...then Asked the Atlanta guys and they only had 2..then I saw J-hat behind their #3 and thought they beat us...little did I know they scored it by time and we beat them by 30 seconds.
I wasn't too disappointed with my race considering I had run a marathon earlier in the month and then hit a 1/2 last week.
We went over to Scott Smiths with a bunch of running buddies and Scott whooped up some burgers on the grill and we played a game of darts before heading back..fun times with some good running buddies.
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