Notes
Great race. The hill at the start was not as bad as I thought but the one at the end was worse than I anticipated. I only looked at my watch once during the whole race so I had no idea what my pace was during the race.
Started off right behind Dennis Kurtis, Norry McAllister and Dave Piazza. I stayed with them fairly easily up the hill to the bridge and only lost a little ground over the bridge. Then when we took the left onto Long Rd to go down to the Marina (very steep dowhill) they, and Christine Kennedy as well, put a lot of time on me. I thought they were gonna be long gone. But after the 180 turn at Fort Point I started to feel in the groove. I started trying to lengthen out my stride and, sure enough, those guys all started to come back. I passed Dennis and Norry and Christine in that long flat stretch down Marina Blvd and was really feeling strong. Nobody was passing me. The uphill into Fort Mason was brutal! As I was approaching the hill I could see the runners ahead of me already on the hill and it looked like carnage. You could actually see their forms all over the place. After the hill there's the steep downhill 1/4 mile and then a RH with a short sprint to the finish. I was able to kick in there and pass 1 runner but Piazza was probably 5 or so seconds up on me. I just ran out of race. Great stuff.