Notes
Ecstatic about my performance. Was uncomfortable pretty much the whole time. Started with 2:00 pace group and more or less ran with them the first 7 or 8 miles. I had planned to run with them the first 10, then run last 3 as a "5 K". I decided they were just going too slow and decided to *gradually* leave them behind, starting somewhere between 7 & 8 miles, but then stayed focused on keeping pace to just under 9:00 min/mile. It got hot out there too. Weather Underground says it was 70 degrees at 10 am, but it felt much hotter than that to me. Last 3 miles I was hurting so much I thought at time that might fall apart same way I did last year, and yet I somehow kept it together and came up with a PR. Ecstatic.