Notes
Well, did about a quarter mile warmup and a few strides and got to the line. Thought that Lance was gonna race me, but he wussed out and switched to the 5 mile race instead. Gun goes off and instantly I am about 10th. There looked to be about 5 guys that had any type of legit shot at winning it. One kid looked a bit better than the rest and I just watched them slowly creep away in the first mile. I was in about 6th or so in the first mile and starting to move up. Not a lot of the kids in front of me looked that good, and the knee felt fine, so I started to hustle it up a bit and caught up to the 4th place kid. One mile split was off, as always, but ran 6:31. By mile two I was alone in 4th, but one kid was coming back to me and another was gaining on me. Second mile split was 6:28, again not sure if that was right on. I got passed by the kid behind me and I kinda tried to latch on and was gaining on the kid that was in front of us and went by him as I got passed and stayed in 4th. I was working at this point and the legs were revolting against me muscle wise, but nothing too crazy knee wise at all. So I finished up strong with a 5:57 last split. I am pretty sure that was just a full mile and maybe the first mile had the tenth in it. Either way 4th overall, sub 19 and knee felt good. I will take it for 5 months after open knee surgery. Time to get a little more serious... not a fan of being out of shape.