Another losing battle with the humidity. Not what I hoped for, but what I expected. This is the third time I've run this race and the third different course I've seen. This one was a 1.86-mile loop around the tennis center at Burns Park; we did a lap and a half and finished on the back side. Downhill finish, fortunately, but more undulations than I wanted to deal with. Mile 2 was rough. I was trying to at least keep Cortney in sight ahead of me and eventually failed. Just struggled through the best I could. If you'd asked me for a prerace prediction I would have guessed around 24 and hoped for 22, and the guess would have been correct. Still got 6th AG, but then there were only 8 in my group. Bleah. And a 62-year-old guy beat me. Double bleah. Hoping I'll do a little better than that when GP points are handed out tomorrow. If I'd run goal/PR I'd have gotten 2nd AG and probably top 55 overall.
I just have to hope that my body will respond when the temperatures and the humidity are both below 50 in Utah. It was overcast and there was a tiny bit of breeze which made it slightly less intolerable, but everybody seemed to be suffering with the humidity.
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