Notes
final results 35:43 - 7:12 pace. I was 22nd overall and 1st in my age group 20-25 (and would of been 3rd if my age group was 20-29.) overall winner finished with a low 29.
100% humidity seemed a bit of an issue, took more effort than normal to settle into a nice pace. probably passed 50-75 people in first mile, then kept picking them off one at a time for awhile until about half way where I reached no man's land. eventually the last three guys I had passed came back up and passed me, I think around the 3.5 mile mark. I held with them for half a mile but they got away. I tried to pick it up for the last mile but the guy in front of me stayed out of reach and I gave up and just held my 7 minute pace. all the pounding on the road also got to me after awhile, my ankle didn't like it. so tried to hit up some trails and the ball fields for my cool down which felt good after I got through the first 5 minutes. I kind of wanted to keep going but ran out of space to run and got bored doing loops. wish I had gone a little faster and/or shown some more mental fortitude late in the race, but overall it was solid especially as its been a tough week trainingwise with achilles stuff and working the two days immediately before the race.