A race this long almost never goes exactly to plan, but usually I end somewhere near expectation. This race was different. I actually had a stress dream the night before that foreboded the reality awaiting me. In the dream I finished a day later than planned and I could not remember why I had gone so slow. In reality I finished a little less than a day behind my goal time, but I know why I went so much slower than I anticipated. As I made my plans and researched the course, I set an ambitious time goal in the READ MORE