Notes
Cool, rained before and later in race. Trail mostly dry at first, but got slippery toward end. Kinvaras did great, though--I never slipped.
Very twisty course--Garmin puts it at 2.77 miles. I'm willing to bet it's a little short, but nowhere near that short. Started watch after official start but before I reached start line (no mat, as before) so official time will be maybe 4 or 5 seconds more than what I've got recorded, and actual time was 4 or 5 seconds less. Eh. Will change to official time, but for future reference, watch said 35:52, actual was about 35:48.
Wore: blue Nike capris, black Craft top, had car fob in black wrist pocket, white MC bra, white Athletic Annex (Nike) hat. Comfortable, but didn't stick around after in rain to see if Qdoba ever showed up.
Parking sucked. In industrial lots with big No Trespassing signs, nobody to direct traffic, no signs.
Can't really do splits--first mile was 12:06 (Garmin thought .93 when I reached the mile marker), but I missed 2nd marker and 3rd, if they existed.
Race itself: started near back, as usual. In first mile got stuck in column of people--hasn't happened before as I'm usually too slow to be with a group. Took a while before we got to pass some of the folk holding us back. Passed several others after that, and settled between two run-walkers. The woman ahead of me would take walk breaks until I almost caught her, then would run again. But her walk breaks got more frequent, and I passed her just before the end. The other was a young girl who was walking when I passed her, then started running again and stayed on my tail until near the end--she disappeared once for a minute or so, which I think was another walk break for her.
I think I finished ahead of about 10 people. Will update once official results are in.