Notes
felt a little bloated in the morning and still sore from all the hiking in my thighs but i warmed up as usual and slowly started coming around. right from the start the top guy blasted out the gate so I hung back and slowly started picking off some hs kids who already died before mile one. Then there was kid-with-lion-mane-hair. He was pretty much 20m ahead of me the race but we paced off each other well so even though we were in no-man's land, we kept pushing each other.The course was honest, pretty gnarly hill at mile 2 but you come down it for mile three or so. Rob and i goofed a bit and thought we had 800m left when we really had maybe 300m. I would have liked to close harder but i still had a very good race overall and felt like i could have carried that speed through an 8k race or beyond.
AND I WON.... the raffle.
set out for a cool down + work out + long cool down after wards to get about 16 mi total.