S1E13 Wings of hope 10k (5.50) 1st overall 32:33 and Stackhouse park bunny hop 1st overall 13:04 4/16/22

Two races: Wings of hope 10k 1st overall 32.33 (5.5 miles)and stackhouse park 2 mile bunny hop 1st overall in like 13:04ish.

Both fun races.

Wings of hope was on the road. Wasittle short. But the battle was epic between me and a buddy of mine. It was two loops of 5k course. 1st loop we sort of paced off eachother. When I say sort of cause we both were gonna take 1st loop easy then 2md loop go hard but ylu k ow how that goes we needed up going faster then wanted inadvertently pushing eachother to faster pace. Not wanting eother to get a gap. Then second I pushed harder soooner and trid maintain long as possible cause he's faster. He didn't push in time I got him. There was two different strategies at work and mime payed off yesterday plus it be tad shorter though he had more time. I definitely ran harder then expected. I wore my breakthrough amd not endorphines cause I dodnt know he was coming cause that would have helped me alot. Plus wasn't mentally checked in to run that fast so it took alot of our me. It was super fun though. I would have had a 5k PR if I turned in instead of doing the 10k as I signed up for, also would have had another 10k pr as well. So was booking it. Even while not feeling it.

Stackhouse was fun because it switched to dort%gravel. Was cold before race so had change amd put on my sauna suit top gaiter and such cause body was in cool down from wings. So had warm it back up to not get hyperthermic. Did overdress. Small crowd but it was fun. Couple young high school kids took off so had to run fast. Got ahead amd I could hear footsteps. So kept pushing harder and harder. I didnt wear music. Finally footsteps started fad. Ot was downhill for 1st mile Once hit the turn to go back up I was fine. Thought finish was se as Turkey trot skinheads to left instead or right so that almost cost me. But got it done. Ot such a nice park and was glad to support it.