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Super tight battle ftw, ended up second 😔 under the old course record by almost a minute though and the old CR holder is a 63:xx half marathoner, so pretty happy with the time (for once this year lol). 

I took a bunch of splits whenever the profile turned up or down or the trail changed from wide fire road to singletrack. You can see that the GAP was quite high on the early climbs, and I actually opened up a slight gap on the field. Then I hit the rocky singletrack and the GAP slowed, which is inevitable, but I think it was particularly tricky today because I was wearing Vaporflys! I know, it feels like sacrilege to wear a road racing shoe like that in a trail race, but I was pretty sure the course was mostly non-technical and I could handle it in those shoes. I think that was the right calculation, though there was more singletrack than I thought! And one quite rocky section. Anyway, the eventual winner Luis caught me on that singletrack and from there we basically ran stride for stride for 5+ miles. I felt pretty strong throughout and felt like I had a big kick in my legs, but he had a bigger one. It looks like I was running at below 4:20/mi pace in the final 100m, so I can't be too sad about that, but he opened up 2 seconds on me. I do wish there had been a climb in the last mile, that would've been the only way I might have beaten him. It was clear I wasn't gonna shake him on downhill or flat, but I did feel like I had a slight advantage on him on the earlier climbs.

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