Did you think that this year was harder than 2018 year Dougie?

Yeah, actually I do.

This one was definitely beefed up.

I had spoke with my coach afterwards of the race, and he had analyzed my effort then and then my effort there.

And just the comparisons between the two, you had like an extra mile and an extra 3,000 feet of gain.

And yet I had like 30 minutes of added time for this year.

I definitely think that this year's was mostly, it was definitely harder than what 2018 was.

How many calories is in that drink you were talking about?

Right.

Um, I was up in the front for a little bit.

If people were passing me, the o- only thing I, I talk to myself in my head, "Just don't worry about those people.

You know what you're gonna do? You're gonna pass them later on in the race because they're gonna blow up, and you're not going to because you're not burning yourself out on the initial climb." So you know, there might've been 10, 11 people in front of me before we got to the inverted wall the first time around, but yeah, that just took my time.

I try to stay into like a lo- low, uh, zone two or actually a low zone three, high zone two as I was going up.

I didn't let my heart rate get above maybe about 40, somewhere in that neighborhood.

Just kept a, a nice little, little foot cadence going on.

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