Great race!
This entry was posted on 11/19/2011 2:31 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Near perfect conditions and a good pack of fast guys to run with. After my regular warm up, I got over to the start and it wasn't too cold. The first half mile or so was into the wind so I tucked in and cruised. Hit the first mile in 5:33, just about perfect. Mile 2 was 5:36 = 11:09. Mile 3 5:36 = 16:46. This is right where I wanted to be, but it was maybe too aggressive. I felt good, but the pack started to pull away a bit just after 3. By 4 I was pretty much solo and slowing a bit, 5:48 = 23:34. I briefly tried doing the math in my head to figure out if I was on pace to run a PB, but my brain was much to occupied with keeping the hammer down. Great thing about this race is that there is a 4.5 mile marker, and when I passed that, I knew that I had the PB in the bag. But I heard someone coming up on me too, so I couldn't just cruise it through to the finish. I poured it all out over that last half and finished the last mile in 5:47 for a nice PB of 28:21, by about 12 seconds. No real cool down today so just 7 for the day. Long run tomorrow.
