Notes
Great race today! Great weather, awesome course, I couldn't ask for more! Very well organized event. I just wish they would've let us know that they were going to close the road into town during the 5k that was run earlier. Oh well. I went into this with a goal of breaking 50 minutes. I knew I would have to average somewhere around an 8:03/mile so my strategy was to go out easy and run the first couple of miles around 8:15-8:30, the third and fourth miles just under 8:00, the 5th mile around 7:30 and just run as fast as I could for the final 1.2 miles. The course was a "rolling" hills course, the first tow miles were mostly downhill and 0.5 miles into it I realized I was running faster than 7:30 then really backed it down, when the second and third splits hit I just decided to keep my pace right where it was until the end because it seemed as though I had found a groove. I stepped it up a little after the 5 mile mark and slowly built my speed until the final 0.25 when I brought it in with a dead sprint. I felt I did a good job running the "tangents" of the course and only added 0.04 miles to the overall distance. It's awesome when a plan comes together.