Monday July 25th

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>CMJHawk86</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/74663/monday-july-25th#post_2008076"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>RA - enjoy the rest day and BTW well done on the race.  Trail races vary wildly of course and it's hard to compare between one and the other, or for that matter even the same race year to year, but that looks like a really good result to me. (zrun, you did that too, right?)</p>
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<p>Yeah, it's hard to compare this race to any other race in the area.  I've run it a few times with the following results:</p>
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<p><strong>2008</strong>: 1:10:22 (74 / 657 OA)</p>
<p>went out too fast on tired legs, with a 1:06 goal, and was chewed up by the hills.  Note; that year I posted my 10 mile PR (1:04:18) yet got a PW in this race.</p>
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<p><strong>2009</strong>: 1:08:42  (103 / 739 OA)</p>
<p>course reversed, making it easier, but I was too conservative early.</p>
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<p><strong>2011</strong>: 1:08:17 (52 / 749 OA)</p>
<p>better strategy = better relative performance.  I beat a lot of typically much faster runners.  There's room for significant improvement on the early hills.</p>