Notes
Age Grade: 83.3%
Not the race I was looking for, but I guess I am OK with being third overall. This was basically a solo effort the whole way. Top three were gone from the gun and I was just chasing. Was within 30 seconds of third place through probably 7 miles and then he started pulling away. I thought I was in third place until probably 10 or 11 and then a kid corrected his mom when she said I was third. Didn't really think too much about it, just kept running. When I got to around 16, I kind of lost the will to push. It was uphill and into the wind and I got kind of frustrated. Survived the mile and tried to get back on it, but just kind of lost focus. At mile 17, I saw someone that I knew was ahead of me on the side of the road, so I knew I was in third. :) Didn't have much push though. At that point, I was just running to finish and maintain my position. Whenever I stole a look back, there was nobody there -- so I just survived to the finish. Started getting a bit crowded with the back of the pack of the half (walkers) which kind of was annoying.
Oh well, happy with placement, but definitely disappointed in the time. Time to recover and move on...