Notes
Came out slow in the crowd, record attendance. Everyone was ahead of me that I wanted to run with, to break 20:00. Ed B, Kathy L, Steve G, Joel B. Slowly I made gains and felt pretty good. I was dead on my feet an hour before this race, waking at 2:30 am for the 4 AM - 7:30 shift at Fed Ex, biking to and from camp with Nye, finished the paper route and painted Dad's house a couple hours while he was at camp. I laid down on the couch and lept up just in time to brew coffee and prepare for the race. So I felt pretty good at mile 1 but my watch said 6:45. By mile 2 I had left Kathy behind and was running with Steve G who was also going for sub 20, now my watch said 6:51. This was the time of day, too sleep depraved to use my watch. Steve was committed to the sub 20, but dropped back with a cramp at mile 2.5 I worked on Joel approaching mile 3, and he would stay on my tail to also break 20. I'm sure I ran negative splits, and have no idea how I ran this well on coffee alone. It was great to have the springfield crowd there, always a motivation, Abby was there too.