Sun 11/18 - AM 65 minutes incl. 5k road race

The fall sandbag series continues. Unable to resist the lure of the loot. I had felt some misgivings about toeing the line again after last weekend's draining experience in Portsmouth. All the driving across the state the past two days did nothing to ameliorate this. The cynical goal of today was to dip under the CR by as little as possible. I wasn't at all optimistic about this happening during the warmup, as I realized I should have accounted for the inevitable sea breeze when the course runs right along the shoreline. Flags snapping, mostly a crosswind but plenty of exposure to make it feel like a headwind both coming and going on the out and back layout. Not feeling that energetic either. All this created a fair amount of nervousness which got taken out on the first mile. Trying to stay relaxed and not overdo it I still went through in just over 5 minutes. Given that the course was almost dead flat I figured the time was in the bag so long as there was no blowup. Still concerned about the effect the wind would have so I continued to keep the pressure on the second mile which was more like 5:15. Realized with about 600 to go that I was going to be coming in well ahead of schedule. Slowed down a fair amount in the final run-in but not as much as I would have liked. Legs held up reasonably well to the effort, some stiffness in right hammie beforehand but nothing that bothered me during the race itself. Cooldown happened in two chunks, plenty of breaks to check out the local flavor.