Notes
Overall I am pretty happy with this effort. Was not a true race. Tried to get out comfortably hard and was shooting for 6:20ish. I think my garmin may have been having some issues though. I hit the first course marked mile and my watch said .85. This stayed pretty much the same the rest of the way. Didn't pay any attention to this. I just ran according to the effort that I wanted to expend. Quite a few people got out WAY harder than they should have!!! People that I beat by 2 to 6 minutes ahead of me a half mile into the race? When we hit the first big hill, I was running with Joe and another master(?) and decided that if they wanted to sit on me, they would have to work for it. Put some distance on them going up the hill and never saw them again. After that, it was just maintain the perceived effort and keep picking off people. Felt almost like Ragnar in that I just kept seeing people up there and trying to reel them in. Kind of fun.
Megan ran a really strong race!!! I was ahead of her, but she was just lurking back there the whole time. She caught up to me in the 7th mile and we worked together probably through 9 miles? Put a couple of steps on her from there to the finish, but I would imagine she has to be fairly pleased with 5th place woman...
All in all -- a decent day.
8/16/2015 -- Excluded from PR because obviously the course was short this day.