It was sunny - on the positive side - for the Van Cortland Track Club's Urban Environmental Challenge 10K this morning. Unfortunately, temperature-wise it was still Winter, with a pretty stiff wind chill tossed in for good measure! But, that detail aside, there was a great turnout for this awesome trail race!
The course is a double loop that splits the back hills into 2 trails (the "high" road on the first, the "low" road on the second). The second loop, in contrast to the first loop, had a lot of debris and fallen trees/branches on the trail. I had a 55 minute target in mind at the start. I didn't think there was too much speed in my legs going in - and looked as it a final trail tune-up going into next week's NJ Ultra Fest.
Somehow I managed to run a 52:58 (squeaking in just under 53 minutes)! That's my second fastest finish at this race (just a minute+ over my 2015 finish of 51:49)! It was a solid 2+ minutes better than last year's finish of 55:17). As a bonus it was good enough for 2nd place in my age group (which in turn was an improvement over last year's 3rd place AG)!
Here are the official results from VCTC.
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