Notes
Took two naps today (lunch/after work) to see if I could get recovered from a fairly hard bike ride on Monday and some long swimming on Tuesday (and run).
I felt decent during mile 1... ran downhill and didn't go crazy with my speed however I ran about 5:40 first mile. I think I may have settled a bit too much during mile 2 because it ended up being fairly slow at 5:55. I looked at my time at the point and realized I had a shot to break 18 (wasn't overly concerned about this today) but the stress of the race was setting in and the last mile ended up being pretty rough even though I negative split mile 2-3. 5:52 on the majority of an uphill run but got passed by Chris Lightle (he ran a good race).
I'm making progress, slow and steady, I think now that my base mileage is there and I can start adding in some speed work I will make some good steady progress up through fall before settling in with some individual pace effort. Despite missing 17's I was 18:02 and I feel pretty good with that with the course/temp.