Well, I finished standing up.It took me a while to post because I was trying to recover from the run. My finish time was 2:21 and I'm pretty sore but not as sore as I was expecting. The last 5k were the hardest. I thought I would try to push just a little at that point but then I found myself really hurting with 2k to go. Overall, I'm just happy to finish. I found that my breathing was fine throughout the race from holding back a bit. Overall, I think I held it together pretty well; it's my legs that pretty much died at the end. I wanted to push but they couldn't do it. I decieded before the race that I would take quick walking breaks when I hit a water station which helped a little but I really want to increase my tempo. The biggest challenge was the weather; more specifically, the wind. I usually can turn it up a bit on the downhills but all of those were negated by the wind. Oh well. I finished (10/10 in my category) and on the last kilometer into the clubhouse, finished strong.
