When he got to the flat spot about 400 meters into Mile 4, "I just hit the wall and kind of cramped up in my right calf," he said.

He was wishing he'd worn socks "because all the downhill, I didn't really take into consideration, so my feet were burning up pretty good through the first four miles."

He also regretted running 12 miles on Saturday with BYU teammate Josh Rohatinsky. "That probably put me over the top for the week," McAdams said, smiling and saying it was still a good experience — his first time in the Deseret Morning News race and first 10K road race.

Batty and Smyth each started in the back of the pack. "That's what I usually do — go out conservative so I don't get tired early," Batty said.

"I started way in the back," Smyth said. "So I just had to kind of work my way up slowly but surely and just try to run people down. I just kind of played catch-up."

Batty said he caught the leaders sooner than he expected "and just kind of ran with them for a while until slowly people started dropping off."

He's been coming on well since 2006 started. He wasn't especially satisfied with his freshman season in cross country, but he qualified for track NCAA regionals.

"That was a big goal for me," he said.

The second place was Smyth's best July 24 finish, and he was happy with it.

"It would have been nice (to have caught and passed Batty), but he's in great shape," Smyth said. "Miles and I have been racing all season (in college) on the track and in cross (country), so that's kind of fun. We raced out at Stanford and up in Oregon — all 5Ks, though."

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