 Today's race is being put on by the Pikes Peak Roadrunners and that is an organization that basically sets up, I think, four races in the fall called the Fall Series and then this is the Winter Series. So this is the last race in the Winter Series, there's four races, I believe, and I started racing in the late 90s in the Pikes Peak Fall Series. So 20 plus years ago, this is how I really started running and racing was the Pikes Peak Roadrunners Fall Series and my dad and I, we would drive down from Buda Vista, I was in middle school, I think I was sixth grade, maybe seventh grade and we'd go run. In fact, one of the hardest races I've ever done was in this Fall Series by the Pikes Peak Roadrunners. For those of you that don't know, kiddos out there watching the 90s, the late 90s, that is the decade before the 2000s, just for all you young kids out there watching. Alright folks, we're almost there and it's 27 degrees, oh boy, I'm on the, I just don't know what I'm going to end up wearing, it is sunny out, it all depends on the wind. If it's windy, I'm going to put tights on, if it's not windy, I'm not going to have tights on because it's right on the brink of that freezing mark so we shall see. Time to go, see you at the finish line. Just finished, that was fun. A great rust buster, second place, not too shabby, I don't know, it's probably 150 runners, would be my guess and for a rust buster, we'll take it. Second place by, I think first place is about 45 seconds ahead of me and I just couldn't quite catch him but my mouth is frozen. I'll give you more of an update here in a second. Oh, that was fun though, good rust buster. Here we go, Pike's Peak Roadrunners Long Race in the books, 20k which is basically 12 miles. I don't even know what my time was but I took second place and I always like to guess, by the way, Russell, I hope your race went well, sorry I wasn't able to stick around and cheer you on. Russell is the gentleman that told me about this race and it was a good race. You know, I'm kind of all in on trail racing now and ultra running, it's hard to get excited about road racing these days I must say but it was a good race, overall it was solid. It's just a little windy out here but that's okay, it was fun overall and I felt strong the whole day, couldn't quite track down first place. He basically put a minute gap on second, third and fourth and at about the 2 mile mark he put a gap and I just didn't quite have it for tracking him down but what was exciting was that with 2 miles to go I was able to drop like a 5-20 mile at the end of the race. So that's like a good sign for the rest of the season that my strength is there, like I'm never going to really run sub 5 minute miles anymore in races, it's just not what I'm aiming for with the distances that I'm shooting for this year but the fact that I still kind of have that turnover is that's a good thing, it's a good thing. So I always like to guess what my mile pace is before I look at it on Strava. So I'm guessing first of all I think the race topped out at about 8,000 feet. We started I think at like just over 7,000 feet and my guess is, so I'm going to look here in a second, we topped out at about 8,000 so we're talking pretty high altitude here and Denver where I live is 5,000 so this is like 3,000 feet above Denver and then I'm guessing it's about 2,200 feet of vertical. I was rolling the whole way like it was very rarely flat up and down, up and down so it was I'm guessing 2,200 feet of vertical and I'm my miles pace I'm hoping it was about 6,30s I'm not I don't know it might be a little slower but let's take a look. So my mile pace not too shabby, 6,11 a mile I'll take that, I'm a little surprised anyway that's good okay here goes and it's I have 12 and a half miles Russell what do you have I have 12.4 miles on Strava so then okay interesting it felt like more this says 1,300 feet of elevation gain it felt like a lot more because it was always rolling and then our highest elevation yeah I was about right 7,700 so not exactly low elevation race here so not bad we'll take it but 6,11 a mile we'll take it that's exciting once again that bodes well for the future considering you know I'm only running like 30 to 40 miles a week right now so tipping the hat to all the runners out there hope you had a good race and hope you had a good rust buster and onward to bigger and better races that was amazing good rust buster and well done so next race is in April sorry person who was gonna get second place anyway next race is in April and see beauty work love each other