Notes
I knew I wanted it. Feeling comfortable I was hanging with a guy that wanted to go under 20. It simply went well and the first mile was 6:20. Rounding the pumphouse corner before the spillway, I hear footsteps. Dan M. can't accelerate at this pace, up beside me comes Jay D! "You got to push me man, he says and soon pulls past me. I found a little surge on the hill, and led him a bit, and in the second mile we'd work on the guy who is shooting for sub 20. Jay soon dropped us both. Round the modern pumphouse, the sub 20 guy pulls up and on the downhill I pull ahead of Jay, and catch sub 20 on the hill. He pushed me pretty hard toward the finish line. I was struggling to simply run fast and comfy, not straining and hurting. I gave a strong push-off to keep the guy at bay and had a good 4-6 second PR.