Notes
Finally feel familiar with this course. Drank liberally and popped 3 endurolytes, stretched. Big crowd including Duane B-N and Joel B. The field left me behiind in the first mile, no one really in sight on the winding course. Good thing it was familiar. One guy hung at my back the first 2 miles and made a move past me as we got close to the river, the second field. He and the guy behind him slipped ahead as we approached the little steep hill. I passed them both on the hill, and really worked to keep my pace up over the top and along the steady grade. This hill forced one of them to a walk, but the hill doesn't end at the top. It is a false top with a good quarter mile of about 2-3% grade that doesn't really give you a rest. Anyhow I kept my place with a steady acceleration toward the finish, there was a minute gap between myself and the guy ahead of me. Ed ran very well too, 19 days till Escarpment. Excellent run after the commute.