When I look back on this race, 3 months later, the only word that comes to mind
is: broken.
I felt myself burning out in the run-up to this race, and I scaled back my
training to try and compensate. It didn’t help; I felt undertrained in the
race, and broken afterwards. It was somewhere around 15.2 miles in length, and
the only flat parts were on the last mile or so. Everything else was rolling,
so that coming down off of the mountain was as brutal as going up. Not that any
portion of it was truly brutal, but it was way more than I was expecting. There
was a touch of technical stuff near the summit, but nothing terrible. There was
a guy running with what appeared to be running crutches, and he managed to get
through the technical stuff, and beat me by at least an hour.