Notes
I had some confidence going into this race (mostly based on last year's results), but went out less aggressive than All-American. I just followed Drew and Kyle for about 1.5 miles. Mile @ 5:19. Then Drew and I ran together for awhile. 2 mile @ 10:50, 4mile @ 22:03. Drew took off a little after 3 miles. Like last year, my 4 mile split was faster than All-American, but unfortunately way slower than last year. So my time was not motivating and neither was I likely to be caught or catch anyone.
Hindsight, the pace never felt fast, but my legs were tired pretty early on, maybe some residual tiredness from biking or workouts or something. More importantly, I'm wondering why I was 40sec slower than last year when I had similar All-American times. My guess is last year I had my weekly soccer matches, which provided a sort of faux speedwork session while this year I haven't done much speedwork at all.
Lamb-Kohaw