Sea Legs Shuffle 10 Mile Race Report

Today was the Sea Legs Shuffle 10 Miler in Guilford, CT. Marathon training today was a 13 mile run with 8 at marathon goal pace (8:24 for me). I was torn on how to handle this - race the full time miles or do the prescribed distance (with warm up and cool down) at the prescribed pace. Since I have a tendency to overthink things (my wife may disagree) - I finally went with the just run at a decent pace and see what happens strategy. Course was fairly hilly - weather was great - and there was quite a bit of shade.

Matt (who is very fast) wasnt feeling so hot at the start of the race - so he hung back with me for the half mile. Once his "issues" seemed to settle he took off. The first three miles seemed to just coast by - but then the hills began. I was still feeling good until about mile seven when I got hungry and the 5am wakeup started to hit me. I started to run with someone named "Bill" (not in the final results so I may have hallucinated him) at this point. Half way through mile ate the fuzziness shook off - but I was definitely still hungry. The final turn back to the beach was a very welcome site. As we came into the final stretch I picked it up as best I could - there wasn't much there.

Here's the official results:
Place: 122
Div: 21
Bib: 47
Time: 1:16:35
Pace: 7:40

"Official" Garmin Splits
7:17
7:25
7:31
7:30
7:54
7:51
7:49
7:37
7:48
7:37
0:23 for (.06 miles for 7:01 pace)

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/42763814

Here are some pictures from the race.....