Tour de Basement

Super(vised) Formal Strength

Madison, Square, Garden

Almost True L-One Story

Tour de L’Anse

2021 Summer Marathon W13D07: Unstructured activity.

Ate and slept well last night. I thought I started this race slow but the pace wasn’t slow. The first 5.50-ish miles went by pretty quick in spite of 5th mile having s pretty steep climb.

Around the 5.50-mile mark, I stepped into a little divet covered up by grass - probably an entry way into some rodent’s underground mansion - and sprained/rolled my left ankle. Treating it as some kind of blessing in disguise, I chose to go slow while focusing more on the surroundings for the next couple miles. By mile 7.50-ish, noticed that my right leg was feeling a but heavy. By mile 9, pain was barely noticeable and with quarter mile to go, I could do (according to one of the volunteers) the trademark sprint to the finish.

The course, in a word, was spectacular! Two track, single track, a bit of asphalt, lots of switch backs, descents, ascents and flats, roots and rocks, and plenty of aid stations - it had a bit of everything one would need in a trail race. Most of the course was under the canopy of trees and the open pastures/meadows had plenty of breeze - keeping us all very cool!

Official time was 1:56:00.1 (https://my.raceresult.com/171713/#1_AF6C71) - about 15 or so minutes slower than planned but good for 29/65 overall, 25/XX in gender and 8/YY in AG. Good outing.

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Start: Sunny, 74, Feels like 75, Humidity 71, Wind 7 from SSW
End: Sunny, 78, Feels like 80, Humidity 61, Wind 7 from SSW - by Klimat.app

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