* week late...but better late than never!**

Last Sunday was the last of the summer 30K trail series that I signed up for and it was the best one yet..and with best pictures!

First off my parents were in town so got to hang out with them the day before and got a good picture of me and papa palmer both looking very aloof before the race.

My plan for this race was to pace behind local pro triathlete Andrea Fisher who had been finishing around 20th for the past two but after shadowing her for the first 1/2 of the first lap or so decided that I had it in me to pick up the pace this was my race and not hers (she was probably just using it as a nice training run)

I was feeling really strong for the rest of the run, it wasn't very sunny but it sure was humid but somehow that didn't bother me very much. I was trying out a new gel flask that is soft instead of hard and was digging it until I yanked too hard on it and lost the mouth control. As I crossed by the crowd on my way to the final 10K lap I tossed the still 1/3 full container to my dad and trekked on. I was still feeling strong until around the 2:15 mark when a 51 year old marathon pacer and some other guy that I had passed a while ago started catching up with me, they slowly caught up and we ran together for a bit before the two of them kicked it up a notch for the last three minutes or so and unfortunatly I just didn't have it in me.

In the end finished with in 2:31, placing 19th/137...which is quite an improvment of the other two placings (37th for the 1st..and an unoffical 31st for the 2nd)

While the rest of the summer is focused on tri's (sprint tri this sunday!!) hopefully i can get a few good trail runs in because I really enjoyed it and look forward to the series next summer.