Sun 7/17 - AM 2 hours trail race Barr Trail

A stinker of a race and about what I expected. Simply too flat and tired to be in any condition to race up and down a mountain at altitude. Not using the rebreather in the lead up to this trip likely played a role as well but no gimmick or performance aid was going to make up for the crap way I felt right from waking up in the morning. Tried to hold something back early in deference to how flat I felt, still overdid it and felt myself give in a bit at about 25 minutes. As it turns out it was the first of multiple tactical retreats on the day. In fact the whole thing resembled a fartlek workout as there were (brief) moments of being motivated and interested bracketed by longer stretches of just not caring and trying to get through the thing without injuring myself. By far my worst time on this course, both up and down. While it was nice to be on the trail as always, I wish I had just been out for a run and not trying to race it. Finished feeling more used up and depleted than last year when I ran almost four minutes faster. Ugh.