Notes
Nice conditions for a race. Disappointing time. Stayed pretty much under control at the start, perhaps a little quick. I think around mile 2 I kicked it in too hard, on some uphills got impatient with the runner in front of me and went off for awhile. Unfortunately, none of the miles were marked, didn't help me keep track of things. But think I hit two miles around 14:30, and that second mile might of been under 7 pace. a little further as i started to die the guy i was with picked it way up (he ended up finishing up with the lead pack). I felt like i held pace reasonable well all alone, eventually felt some pressure from behind which helped. with about 2 miles to go they caught up to me and one of them passed me. i stayed right with him, unfortunately he didn't stay on the course and took a group of us on 200-300m detour. once we found the trail i laid down a surge and kicked it the last 400m to beat out everyone in the detour group and all those guys who had been chasing me down. overall felt pretty good, just ran out of energy out there. breathing was really labored the whole time, right from the get go. legs died but recovered fairly quickly each time. tight turns hard to race, i'll have to work on that. i guess officially i might have been 3rd overall, as i think two of the guys bandited it, i was legitimately 2nd in my age group, only getting beat by the overall winner who ran about 50 flat. maybe my goal of breaking 50 just wasn't a good goal as though guys in the lead pack looked pretty serious. i beat all the females, which doesn't usually happen so that was good.