Notes
Nice weather for a race today. Started out right around 50 degrees and probably got no warmer than about 56-58. A little sun on the 2nd half of the race. Ran the entire race with Adam and things went well. We had planned on running constant 8:45's the whole way, but that obviously did not happen. Started out slow and did not worry about pace. This was excellent. No doding other runners at the start, I just ran nice and easy. Stopped to use a Port-A-John at about mile 4 and really started feeling good after that. The pace kept getting faster and faster after that. Clocked a mile 13 at around 7:10 and then turned it on for the last 0.1. Probably ran that portion under 6:00's, but forgot to stop the Garmin right at the finish. My right knee was achey at the start, but by about mile 2-2.5 it had loosened up just fine. We stopped and walked through about 5 or so water stops and ran through another 1. I am very pleased with this race. It did not feel like I was pushing overly hard through most of it and I was able to really speed through the second half of the race.
Race provided splits:
5 mile - 43:25 (rank 807, pace 8:41)
10 mile - 1:23:48 (rank 548, pace 8:23)
Last 5k- 23:05 (rank 182, pace 7:26)