Notes
This was definitely not in any semblance easy or comfortable today. I thought my legs would eventually start to feel a bit better and faster, or at least smoother and today was not that day. I was out in 3rd as some random guy was out front pushing the pace. I was 10-20 meters back from Warstler who was about the same distance back from dude. Hit the "mile" (about 1.1) in 5:32. Still wasn't feeling good and had headed into the wind. Warstler and dude seemed to trade places the next half mile or so as I slowly gained ground on dude. By the half way point had caught and passed dude and started to try to gain on Warstler. Had caught him shortly before 2 and started to attempt to put it away. Knowing the wind would be in my face the last mile and legs were already tired, assumed this was my best shot. Didn't hear a 2nd mile split but split my watch at 3 miles for a 10:00 next two. I assumed that meant those would be short by whatever distance the first was long by but still not terrible. Closed it off in a :30 so that wasn't too bad considering I felt terrible. Glad I could get the W but thought I was in closer to 15:30 shape. We'll have to find out another day.