Notes
Ran this race for the first time this morning. Did a 2.5 mile warm up then ran hard. I just tried to feel my way along and set a pace I knew I could maintain. I never looked at my watch and have no idea how well I paced it. Tom was behind me until about a 300 left and beat me by 1 second. He thought the the first half was around 2:45 and if so that only has me 7 seconds slower for the second half. That sounds reasonable. My only regret is not pushing harder on the last 50 meters. I had a little more than I gave.
Overall, i am very pleased with this race. I really thought I was over 6 minutes until Tom told me we were around 5:40.