Farmington Flag Rock race is this Saturday. 'Smorning I ran a two-mile poo shake out to the school where the race will start. This was a trial run to simulate the race as much as possible. The rumor is the course record for this 7 mile trail and street run is 1:05, set last year by some speedy dude. There are a couple of significant hills to climb, then a steep descent through jerky switchbacks on the back side. It ends with a mile of road through town. To date my fastest time has been somewhere around 1:20 or more.
'Smoring I ran it in 1:06, including a couple minutes of walking. The last mile I was really down on energy but tried to keep the pace up. I think the key for me is to run steady uphill, go wildman animal on the trail downhill, then get into a nice fast groove on the outro road mile. And run all the hills. On race day there will be no walking. Debating whether to run without water on race day. Hoping that with a few more training runs I will shave off some minutes.
Completed the morning jogging two miles home. Joggin, not running cuz I was whipped.
Wish Jared The Mr K could be running but he has to deal with a bum ankle. MGW Dorsimus will be running so it will be nice to have a familiar face in the group.
EDIT: I found the results for the Flag Rock 2011 race. Course record is 1:11:24 not 1:05.
That's encouraging.
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