Notes
I arrived at the park with the goal of running faster than 30:49, but by the time the race started, I was gunning for breaking the 30-minute mark. I slept horribly the night before and felt bad, too. Phil said that was the best time for me to set a PR and go for broke. Bill ran with Aaron, as Aaron wanted to try the whole 5K. I had the virtual pace on, and I watched my Garmin to make sure I was on pace to finish with a new PR. At the end, when I could finally see the clock at the finish line, it said 29:56. I was already running as fast as I could, as my Garmin showed me finishing under 30 minutes with a few seconds to spare, as long as I kept up that pace. I tried to go faster, but I crossed the line at 30:02. The Garmin showed 29:57. I resigned myself to the 30:02 time, but I was very disappointed to see that the official results listed me at 30:04. Someone added some time to my race between clicking the stop counter and recording my time. I waited for Aaron and encouraged him to run his hardest across the finish line. He took over 10 minutes off his previous fastest 5K time today.