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Vista View Ultra 360 Relay: Our team (Loco Rio) got men's #1 (44 laps? @ 1.25 mi per lap)! Women's team got #1 also! 11 x 1.25 miles. 7th overall on horse trail (5:54 min/mi pace) on the hilly path - on my last lap - nice.

Stepped on a rock real hard in the first lap, on a downhill in a concrete gutter. Hurt pretty bad when walking, but not much when running - thankfully. The "pain of running" helped drown it out, and there was lots of soft mulch which also helped. Was really worried about it initially. About to ice it.

Apparently these were my splits, pace via running calculator:

11 x 1.25 mile splits:

7:37 00:24:08 // 6:05 min/mi
7:31 00:56:54 // 6:00 min/mi
7:39 01:28:34 // 6:07 min/mi
7:31 02:00:17 // 6:00 min/mi
7:30 02:32:22 // 5:55 min/mi
7:35 03:04:33 // 6:03 min/mi
7:45 03:36:57 // 6:12 min/mi
7:50 04:09:36 // 6:15 min/mi
7:31 04:42:13 // 6:00 min/mi
7:52 05:15:38 // 6:17 min/mi
7:15 05:48:10 // 5:47 min/mi

2 x sub6, 5 x very close to sub6. 9.25 miles @ ~6 with recovery in between. pretty cool.

btw .. a 60 year old won the individual race, incredible. 31 laps. Last year's winner had like 42, he's a pro, but he's also like 40 or so? This dude is 60 & dropped 31 laps. 31 x 1.25 miles. pretty sick. seemed like a cool/weird dude haha.

http://www.splitsecondtiming.com/results/2018/vistaindiv2018.php

The team results:

http://www.splitsecondtiming.com/results/2018/vistateam2018.php

#2, #3, and #4 were in a real battle .. that was pretty close.

we fell short of our goal of 46, but some of that is due to people playing it conservative - to be safe. I didn't play it conservative at all. I just went out hard every time and figured, who cares, let's get it. Some of the laps were really rough and I noticed I was breathing harder than every single person I past (blazed by).. so that was interesting.

On my very last lap, the one I pushed really hard, I was making lots of yelling-ish noises. Just did so naturally. In order to keep that pace, I had to just "grunt-bark" from pretty much 0.50 to 1.25.. It was really loud but it helped me keep turning on the turbo boost.

This is probably a good sign leading up to March 24th's half marathon .. I really think I can hang with those 5:55-6:05 dudes who normally win it. I should be in even better shape by then too, so ... looking to shock some people & WIN in my back yard.



I think they took lots of photos.. should have some good ones.

oh .. I ran with my glasses the entire time as well.. after I wrecked my right heel in the first lap, I just couldn't risk not being able to see another rock.. I had my glasses on when I hit it, but I didn't have my headlamp angled downward - didn't know it could move. so I ran with my glasses. hah.