My driver picked me up in the Porsche at 5:30am this morning for a VIP experience at the 2026 Bolder Boulder 10K. We found great parking and jogged over to the race start with plenty of time to warm up.

The weather was so perfect that I was comfortable in my racing singlet. I warmed up well enough in the corral that my 7:53 first mile was fairly comfortable. It had me feeling a little oxygen debt, but my 2nd mile was faster, running up Folsom in 7:36, so that shows I didn’t go out t...