Back in Bay Area tried a local race in the morning. It was a really hard course with tons of steep up and downhills under punishing sunshine. As a prep had yesterday some 15 hours of flights and several more on a stopover. Still, the race went quite ok. Matthew Tompkins my old nemesis pulled away in the final uphill. One of his students had left us already a mile before so I ended up in the third place… In my normal form I should’ve carried the uphills home but today I did not. Maybe it was the flights, maybe I wasn’t just mentally tough. I ran one curve in a downhill wide and dropped my glasses after which the young guy left us, and just before the final stretch was taken to the side by one 5K lad I couldn’t pass…