Notes
7:13 first mile... Felt pretty good. But my second mile read 8:07 and I totally thought I had slipped off pace that much, but I kept trucking. Luckily, the mile marker was wrong, because my 3rd mile said 6:39. At that point with .1 left I knew I was close to PRing, so I kept at it.
It hurt. Definitely. But it honestly didn't hurt as bad as most 5Ks. I think not starting out with a 7:03 or something nuts like that, helped.