Notes
Felt lousy and the heat didn't help. Neither did the course. Decided to take it easy. Would have normally expected to run this between 9:25 and 9:30 pace. But this is as fast as my body wanted to go. Had a brief speed burst in the second half of mile 5 to overcome boredom. A runner was approaching me from behind. So I decided to surge a little. If he made a strong move, I'd let him go. But I wanted to make it a difficult pass, to see if I could break him. I kept slowly upping my pace for about .3 miles. I could tell he was getting frustrated that he couldn't close. All of a sudden he made a strong acceleration. To my disappointment he passed me went another 40 meters and stopped. Had I known he was going to do that I would have fought him. It's probably for the best that I didn't.