Notes
Cold start but warmed up quickly during the race. Didn't feel comfortable with my breathing from the start, but my legs lossened up as the race went. Heard them call 6 minutes as I went by the first marker. Tucked in behind a guy and a girl for the second mile. Didn't feel like I slowed down to 6:30 but I must have plus this mile includes the turn around the cone which sucks. Never could change gears to pass the couple, probably should have beared down a little harder here. Followed them into mile 3 and the guy took off, the girl stayed steady so I stuck with her. We sped up the last half mile and I caught up with her at the line. Overall very happy to break 20. Not so happy I phoned in the second and third mile. Felt like I had decent finishing speed but would have liked to have started the sub 6 kick while still outside the stadium. Wasn't paying close attention to my watch during the race so I could concentrate on running and thought I had more of a margin on 20 than I did, actually thought I was going to be down in the upper 18's low 19's but was running so hard I never looked at the clock in the stadium until after we finished and it was past 20. Then I knew it was going to be close. I asked the girl I finished with what her time was and she said under 20 so at that point I felt ok with it.