I have been completely out of the loop for several weeks now. Honestly, I have been busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest and have not been able to update the blog for awhile but that is all about to change. Chicago marathon is less than 9 weeks away now and I'm going to do my best to blog about the growing pains associated with a new training plan, new training partners, and a new training venue. However, I would like to back track a few weeks to catch up on where i have been. July 25th was the bix 7 miler held in downtown Davenport Iowa. My second trip to Iowa in a month. This time I flew and my ticket was over $900. I guess the airlines in Davenport dont understand how much plane tickets are anywhere else on the planet. The morning of the race was greeted with thunder, lightening, and pouring rain. As we warmed I wondered if the race was going to be postponed because it was lightening. The race proceeded and the gun shot off. As always, everyone just jogs to the top of the first hill and the real racing begins. We hit mile one in 5:08 and I took the bull by the horns and split a 4:12 from miles one to two and split everything up. Antonio Vega and Scooter Baughs came with and then Vega started pushing by mile 3. We had a gap on the chase pack of possibly 20 secs at the turn around point. However that fast early pace screwed all three of us since Ryan Hall chased after us and Ed Moran and Sean Quigley followed suit up the grinding hills to the 6 mile mark. The Hall chase pack passed my by mile 5 and they finished Hall, Moran, Quigley. Vega nabbed 4th and I was 5th. Was I disappointed a little? Yes. Would I have run a little differently? Maybe. I wanted to win and I thought my race plan gave me the best shot at it.
Mr Dan Tomlin (coach at St. Ambrose College) and Ed Froehlich (Bix race director) did a great job of taking care of us and kudos to the Bix for reinvesting in American running and making the Bix a US championship rather than an open road race.
I will get this blog cranked up and firing to give the ins and out of my latest happenings.
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