Notes
Des Moines Marathon 3:05 Pace Group Leader, official time 3:04:09
Accidentally stopped my watch during my porta potty break at 10k, so that threw off my total time and kind of made my pacing a little more uncertain there for a bit, lol. This whole race felt super easy and chill, I really had to focus on holding the pace back and avoiding naturally progressing as the run went along. I had a pretty big group with me for the first 15ish miles, then beyond 15 it started to thin out and at 18 it was just me and 4 others. At 22 all 4 of them dropped me to go finish strong and I just tried to maintain my 3:05 pace, I just cruised into the finish.
We were supposed to run 30 to 60 seconds under our pacing time, so I hit that right on with my 3:04:09. I had a lot of fun doing this and it was really nice to get a solid long run with people and water stations. Took in 4 Maurten gels during the race and they all settled well.