Saturday, June 13, 2015

UV Half- Melody

It's  been a few years since I've done the half so I was excited to try it again.  The competition was stacked with last years winner, Natalie Como, iron woman Ashley Paulson and local elite Jen Hughes.  

My plan was to hang with the lead pack as long as I could and reevaluate if necessary along the way.  I felt really good today and hung with the leader for about 5-6 miles before she pulled away.  

At mile 7 I got really hot and dumped a cup of water all over me...it turned out to be power aid...oops!

At mile 9 I pulled away from The group I was with and focused on catching Natalie.  Amber was around mile 10 and gave me some more motivation to get after her.  I pulled ahead with one mile to go but she responded back and edged me out by 3 seconds in the end.   It was the strongest I've ever finished on University Avenue with 2 sub 6 miles from 11-13.1.

It was a 3 minute course record for me so I was happy with that!

1:18:41, 2nd female.





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