I had the opportunity to fly down to Portland with Alex and then drive to Eugene. An Asian lady at the counter was yelling at the people in front of us, but she was nice to us. We hit the Expo which was lame, the same as last year. We ate delicious Thai food the night before and did a small 3 mile shake out run. The weather for the race was lovely, it did get pretty hot towards the end. I did Maurten's every 4 miles and put the knee brace on at 18. I was able to run the whole time. I was 133 in my division for 40-44F and my time was 4:37:04 with a pace of 10:34.
We enjoyed time with Corey and Bill after the race and some shopping at Powell's bookstore downtown. There was a lot of traffic surprisingly. Our flight was late on the way back and we were tired. But we were running 2 days later, so all is well.
