Ugh, I just lost a long race report. I'll have to redo a full version later.
In a nutshell: Learned about this race earlier this week and since Heather and I were planning to be up at the Bear Lake cabin, it seemed to make sense. I also persuaded Jon Allen to drive over from Logan to join me. The race had a lot of inaugural pains, such as a major problem with the distance. It was at least 7 miles, even if my Garmin was reading really long, as the times reflect. Jake Rushton won in 40 something. Jon was second, about 30 seconds ahead of me. I was with Jake through 2 and then he gapped me. I was ahead of Jon through 4, when he surged and I had no response. I felt just fine, no complaints about stomach, body, or mind. I just didn't have the turnover to keep up today. I had no punch at mile 6, as my awful split shows. Jon ran really well and it was fun to race with him again.
It's a nice course; relatively flat with a few variations in the terrain, but nothing you could legitimately call a "hill." They need to start the race much earlier, get the aid stations set up early, get some mile markers in place, and most of all get the course certified.
Here are the splits:
5:34/5:40/5:48/5:53/5:52/6:10/5:53/0:53 (for .15) | 