Miles for Pints

Ran the inaugural OKC 25k , 5 miles in 26:30 or so, then chilled and ran the next 9+ miles at more like marathon effort. Didn't feel particularly great up at 4am and that doesn't tend to bode well sometimes. Didn't give myself any real assignment for the day, felt so so all week I suppose.

Hot and humid this morning, legs are not too tired and no soreness, 47'

pm 7 on course

Am 6mi

pm 4.5mi> 8xXC hills continuous> 2.5 cd

Sangre plus XC add on, 13.25

Treadmill sweat fest, did kind of an arbitrary workout just to not read into the numbers too much, ran the mile to/from gym, then something like 3.5 mi> 7x90" on/steady then I think I ran to finish 6 mi at 6' pace all at 2% incline I believe. Most of my faster portions were 5:30pace , worked down on last few intervals and didn't overreach on effort, no paces slower than 10mph; we drove to AR after this but never found the time to double

1st leg starting around noon, warmed up minimally and probably went out a tad fast but had no clue what terrain awaited me, had long downhill where I looked at my watch and was running 5:00 pace on rocky trail for most of the mile proceeded by a creek crossing and immediate resubmit of that same elevation I had just lost but mostly in the first 1/4 mile, passed a runner here, it looks like we climbed 300 feet in a 1/4 mile, the vehicles were getting stuck here. Closed it out on a mile of pavement uphill and into the wind, ~6.5 mi stage w/ 1mi wu/cd

2nd leg forget quite when the handoff was probably around 11pm?, smartly gave up the idea to wear socks on any legs at this point as it was all wet and muddy and a sock just held on to any moisture. So it was obviously total darkness for these legs, wearing a headlamp but all on dirt roads and whatnot, fun but eery for sure, ran strong but stomach felt kind of heavy early and eventually after I had a downhill stretch that I pushed, I had to take a pit stop, which I did right in the middle of the road because no one was anywhere around and I couldn't even see where I could jump off the road into the brush, no harm done. I think this leg ended up being close to 8mi, minimal wu/cd, no Garmin data for this but maybe 51' of effort if I recall?

After 50' nap in backseat of car, Jenny got things started off with a 2mile climb out of the state park and then Craig had a pretty good leg, it started snowing for good measure by the time I got my handoff and continued through my entire leg which was on dirt, muddy at times. I donned the OU singlet for this one and just ran progressively, finished with not a single patch of skin unmuddied and legs went numb but really felt pretty decent, averaged sub 6 for 7 miles and 20 miles total all of which were run on hilly dirt roads, team ended up losing by 12 minutes in a 29 hour race, I would have liked to run the uphill leg against the all guys team, our team was coed 50/50 with a 50 year old woman and 65 year old man.