Notes
Another frustrating race. The weather was good this time even though a bit humid but it wasn't too bad. I got out well and hit the mile perfectly right at 5:32 and felt pretty good and under control. The whole pack was pretty much still together at this point. After that a couple girls started moving and I got passed by a few but I knew I was still on pace so I didn't worry. I hit the 2 mile at 11:06 which is eactly where I wanted to be so that was good and I knew even if I slowed down a little I would still hit a PR. My arms started to get a little tight at 1.5-2 miles but it wasn't horrible. After 2 miles the pack had broken up a lot and I was just running with this one girl from Greenville I think it was. I wasn't hearing any splits at that point but I thought I would just run with this girl for a bit and that would help. WELL I didn't realize how much we were slowing down! I felt like we were still cruising but I should've just broke away from her instead of running behind her because apparently we were slowing WAY down. I broke away from her with about 600 to but at that point I had already lost too much time. I hit the 3 mile in 16:55 :-\ so I think that was about 5:49 for that mile after running 5:32 and 5:34. GAAAAAAAH I didn't even feel THAT bad I just didn't realize how much we slowed down and didn't push as much as I should have in that last mile. So I end up running 17:32 a whopping 1 second faster than I ran a month ago at Wheaton by myself a couple days after running Shamrock. So I was just really pissed at myself for letting that last mile go because I had run the perfect race through 2 miles and then screwed it up in the last mile to let my last chance at a 5k PR go as I will prob. never be in this kind of shape again! UGGGGGH