After a long weekend, I was finally able to get (and really want) to look at a computer and find time to posted about this past weekend.  As you may know, I ran the KC Corporate Challenge.  I got to the course about a hour and 30 minutes before my race started.  I met up with some friends and cheered on some of the ladies we knew that were currently racing.  It was a good day to run, with it being around 50 degrees with a fairly strong breeze.

I started warming up and scouting out the competition.  You never know with this race because any company could have hired some new "fresh out of college" kid.  Finally it was time for us to go.  The course is about a half mile straight down and I just hung with the pack.  This is partly to due with the fact I'm a horrible down hill runner. After the down hill was done with, I started cruising into the lead. I felt really solid and just kept my pace.  I could tell I was slowly making a gap, but nothing to the point where I could be care free. After mile 2 I was still feeling pretty good and was getting more confident that I was going to take this. The last 800m is a ridiculous up hill, which I think I am pretty good at.  I did end up winning with a 15:49ish and second with a 16:02. 

Overall, I was pretty please with the race. I felt really good during it all and had run around 170 miles in the last 2 weeks.  Looks like I'm started to get back into shape.