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Notes

Official time 31:05. My 5k split was approximately 19:15. Jingle All the Way 8k - new distance on the St. Patrick's Day 8k course. My best race to date. McMillan puts the pace for my official time at 6:15 and correlates it to an 18:52 5k. But the course is long. McMillan puts the pace for my Garmin time of 30:51 at 5 miles at 6:10 and correlates it to an 18:37 5k. And look at my splits: I ran pretty evenly (the only hills are in mile 2) and my last mile was my fastest - it was faster than my last mile in any 5k I've ever run and faster than my average pace in all but my two sub-19 minute 5k's. It didn't feel that fast. It just felt like I hung in there. That was 53 seconds, or more than 10 seconds per mile, faster than my breakthrough 8k in Rockville just a few months ago. I'll have a chance to do it again on this same course in March.