I raced Lost Lake this morning. Another good trip down to Seward. The area is beautiful and it's good to get out to random places every now and again. Last year I did the 15.75 mile course in 2:10:17 & this year I did it in 2:04:39 (so says my watch, I don't recall my official time). And my goal was to beat my previous time and maintain a high energy output throughout the entire race. So goal accomplished.



I only had two points of lost focus (which for a 2hr+ race is pretty good). I stopped to eat blueberries & I rolled my ankle. The blueberries was more like a veer over to the side of the trail and quick grab (and on an uphill so I was walking already anyway). Then I realized that eating blueberries, no matter how excited I was about it, was not productive to my race.

I rolled my ankle just before the feed station by mile 8. Initially I couldn't put any weight on it and thought I was done. So I hopped off the trail and visions of hobbling 8miles back out and not running for the next month flashed through my mind. All of a sudden I was overly upset. Then I realized that I was thinking like a spoiled, hypochondriacal athlete so instead I limped the 100m to the feed station ate a gel, drank some water, started walking, noticed it didn't hurt to take a step, felt immensely more cheerful, and ran to the finish. Yes, I did take some anti-inflammatories (Thanks Rhianne!) and put ice on it when I got home.




Sarah Schoen

Sarah Schoen gave me a ride down and since she wasn't racing, just running up the trail to cheer and enjoy the day, I gave her my camera. So thanks to Sarah for taking pictures. I'd put her in charge of my camera any day. What I'd forgotten until just now is that she worked for a National Geo photographer one summer so I suppose that has something to do with it.

Full results will eventually be found at the Lost Lake website. Mandy Vincent-Lang rocked it (dropped her time from last year by 10+ minutes, I believe) and came in third, I was second, Cedar Bourgeois won.