Notes
Stats see above - my garmin distance was 15.48 (25k should be 15.53) and my time was 2:26:41
Course was dry and cool after several weeks of above average temps. Not accustomed to running trails, but got the hang of it by the middle sections.
Starter loop was new this year and had about 1 mile paved (8:17 pace) then onto sandy jeep roads and fire roads. Probably pushed a bit too hard on the sandy sections at the beginning. If done differently, I would have taken it a bit easier and been able to be a bit faster on the first couple of miles of trails. Ended up with a top finishers award, although not certain what place I was in. Could have pushed harder but knew I had to pace Sally later in the day and have a goal race soon.
Results had me within 1 second of the 3rd place woman, but there was not a woman running the 25k in front of me as far as I could tell, there were two women running together just ahead of me but both stopped at the drop bag zone just short of the finish line. (I believe the woman they had a second ahead of me finished well ahead of me since my garmin time was about 2:26:xx. She and the woman in 2nd place were both from Gainesville and were probably the 2 running together that passed me at about half way chatting about training on these trails)
1 817 pavement downhill - this pace was fine
2 934 jeep road sand
3 921 jeep road sand
4 1000 fire road sand
5 1016 finally trail, should have been able to do this a bit faster, but the first bit is downhill and rooty
6 1014 following others but not recovered enough to pass yet
7 934
8 919
9 940
10 938
11 916
12 925
13 852 passing people
14 912 passing people
15 912 passing people
.48 443 (951) - rooty section