Notes
2 second PR!!!!! I'll take a PR any day, but given that this was my first race of the season and that it was warm at the start, I'll call this race a success.
Plan was to go out at about 3:45/km pace, so I succeeded in having a smart and conservative start. I pretty much ran by myself the entire race, except for somewhere after km 2 where one guy passed me and I paced off him for a bit. After a while I realized that he was slowing so I decided to drop him and run alone again. In hindsight, he probably helped save me from myself with the incline going up from the waterpark to the aquarium just before km 4. I decided to save some energy from km 3-4 in preparation for this hill, and actually gained some ground on the pack of 3 who where running about 30 seconds ahead of me. There was just 1km left after the hill, so I thought if I pushed really hard I could make up some more ground on them, but apparently they hammered the downhill back to the start harder than I did.
Fun race and I might do another one in this series if it's convenient, but my preference is the more competitive races with lots of people to pace off of.