10.0mi, 76:04

Phil Collins, "Son of Man" (no shit.)
Cruiserweight, "To Be Quite Honest"

WX at 0900: 69 (20), DP 63 (17), BP 30.03 (1016.8), calm mostly cloudy, RH 81%

Odometer 4: 42.8mi

Z4. Man, did that hurt.
Resting heart rate before start = no reading.

True to form, I decided to run the York Rail Trail 10-Miler. It was actually not a bad race, other than the fact that I had to beg for a ride back to the start. It was surprisingly fast, although as I found out later, it's a generally downhill course.

I was able to generally stop myself from running too fast at the start, and clocked the slowest (relative to other 10-milers I've run) first mile I've ever run. This is important, although as forunes turned out, I ran out of gas around 8 miles and started running markedly slower. Split 9 is not accurate; I had already passed through the water station to tank up when I did before I realized I should have hit the split. The other thing that probably hurt me was the fact that I ran mile 7 in 6:54. I can't believe I did that. That was probably dumb, but I was drafting some woman who was running about the same pace, albeit jockeying back and forth for relative position. This cost me bad in mile 8, now that I think of it. Oops.

The race started an hour earlier than I thought it would. I'm glad I got there when I did.

Still, to run a 76:04 10-miler was all right given the total lack of taper I put into it.

Splits:
AGGREGT SEGMENT AVGPACE DIST
0:07:25 0:07:25 0:07:25 01
0:14:51 0:07:26 0:07:25 02
0:22:30 0:07:39 0:07:30 03
0:29:51 0:07:21 0:07:28 04
0:37:27 0:07:36 0:07:29 05
0:45:09 0:07:42 0:07:31 06
0:52:03 0:06:54 0:07:26 07
0:59:58 0:07:55 0:07:30 08
1:08:39 0:08:41 0:07:38 09
1:16:04 0:07:25 0:07:36 10