Notes
hoping to improve mentally in this race and push myself a little harder than i had in the last few. started out trying to stay close to carl, but he was just moving too fast for me. people were still passing me for the entire first half mile, and carl was already way ahead, so i figured i was moving slowly even though i was already suffering. finally looked at my watch and saw 4:45 for the first .75. Happy to know that I was moving fast since I was hurting, but that's was faster than the first .75 of my mile race on sunday, so it doesn't bode well for the next 2.75. Slowed up quite a bit finished mile 1 over 5:00. Picklesimer passed me around there. Faded toward the end of mile 2, splitting about 5:30 or so (didn't have mile splits from my garmin), and then continued to fade for another .75. Managed to pick it up a bit over the last .75, with the last mile probably just under 5:30, which was a positive for my mental game anyway, since I was hurting.
goal was sub 19, pretty far off that, so it's disappointing. positive note was mentally stronger than ribfest, at least.