Notes
Bay Days race. Adequate warm-up 3 miles with 5x strides prior to gun. Lined up for race and national anthem. Got caught with a poor start - was retying a shoe when the starter yelled "Go." Lost about 5 seconds and ended up running mile one a bit too fast (5:38 on my watch). Settled into the pack and hit mile two in about 5:50 and found myself about 30 seconds in the bank. Passed the first woman at the 2.25 mark and was about 30-40m behind next pack. Paid back some time in mile three (6:15) and held ground in mile four (5:58). Held on and kicked it in faster than I wanted to but finished just under 30 minutes and a PR by about 35 seconds over last August's Westlake race.
Unofficial splits:
5:38
5:50
6:15
5:58
6:10
29:5x