Marathon course. Had Emily drop me off at Brookside and made my way down the course in the dark. Plan was to go easy pace until the last 30 min then start moving down toward marathon pace. I felt really good and relaxed and didnt look at the watch until Winchester. Legs did really good until about 18 then the quads started to hurt pretty bad on the downhill. Had to move off the course before chukawalla due to road construction and running on that craptacular trail blows. Way too up/down but Id rather that than deal with the road workers yelling at me more. A couple guys came by in a work truck and told me I needed to move to the otherside of the road and I said thanks for the heads up I appreciate it. I guess they thought I told them to $@#$ off or something cause they slamed on the brakes and came shooting back in reverse yelling at me. I had already moved over to the other side so I didnt stop but I was just laughing to myself. Its sad how everyone is so quick to assume the bad from everyone else.
Ended up hitting a good 7 min pace overall. Dont know how well I followed the plan for the run. I was expecting to go around 7:30-7:45 until the last 30min then down to 6:30 or better if I could manage. Ended up going just over 7min until the last 30 then sped to 6:20s until the last mile when I died hard. But I guess its ok cause I felt good with the effort and went off feel not watch time which works so much better for me anyway. | 