Top of Zion Relay legs 7, 19. First leg was 3.7 miles from Boulder back toward Escalante. First mile was down hill then the rest was a climb. Sometimes pretty steep. Wasnt planing on trying to go fast just have fun hit around a 8 minute average overall and see how the body felt in the heat of the day. That all went away as soon as I started running. Hit the first mile in 6:09 as my brain went into race mode seeing people in front of me. I was able to calm things back down for the rest of the run but still ended with a 7:16 avg for the run and passed 4 people. 3.7 @ 7:16 Second leg was 4.96 miles from Cannonville to Tropic (the last 5 of the Bryce Canyon half) at 10:30pm. Didnt think the legs would do to well as I had gone harder than I wanted to on the first leg but they worked great and kept wanting to catch and pass anyone in sight. Passed 1 lady right at the start and kept a steady 7:20s pace till the last mile when I picked it up to pass my last kill. Got 3 more people for a total of 4 kills during the leg. Loved the cool temps and the night run. 4.96 @ 7:23 |