Notes
Mill Cities - Leg 5.
First time doing this one. Ran with Kieran, Simon, Tommy and Chris.
Fun day. Got zero chance to warm-up because of some logistical problems that included almost running out of gas between watching Chris start leg 4 and getting to the start of my leg. I really could have taken care of that the night before.
Started out within 100m of two people, which is nice in a relay. Caught up to and went by the first guy about half a mile in, but couldn't get up to the second guy (Eric Narcisi). He probably extended his lead slightly over the first few miles, but only slightly. I didn't really have a time goal in mind, but I was happy when I saw that the third split (straight up a long hill) was close to the first two.
The finish was back down the hill. Speed picked up naturally, but the gap up to Eric didn't budge. Finished 14 seconds back... a little disappointing I didn't have a little more since it turns out that Eric's team (from Whirlaway) was the one that won our division. Also, though I was hurting pretty bad during the run, I felt fine immediately after, which is a bad sign. In any case, I'm just not running enough yet to expect much else.
Good times.