Notes
This was my second running of the Eastern States 20 miler (last run 3 years ago 2:37:32).
This year the start was horrible as they made no advance announcement and you just noticed they were off and running while we were standing around waiting for things to get going and maybe a 1 or 2 minute warning!
Overall I was very pleased with this race as Brian Denger and I ran the whole thing together hoping for at least a marathon paced run of 7:38 miles and a finish of around 2:32 or better so this was awesome for both of us. Seeing Jess, Adam and Candace who gave her pepere a cup of water at about mile 14 was a nice surprise.
My only regret is that with about 1.5 miles to go give or take, I was satisfied with my time knowing that I was going to crush my PR and eneded up letting four guys pass us with out taking up the challenge. It ended up that all four were in my age group and one was Kevin Scott who is a regular winner or usually places in the top 3 of our age division. He came up to me after the race and thanked me for helping pace him...DUH! Once I knew who he was I was a bit disappointed in myself...LESSON LEARNED!
Times according to Garmin:
7:42 - 7:06 - 7:13 - 7:04 - 7:13 - 7:07 - 7:11 - 7:16 - 7:06 - 7:08 - 7:19 - 7:14 - 7:15 - 7:18 - 7:30 - 7:36 - 7:33 - 7:43 - 7:49 - 7:45 - 1:35 ( 2:28:52 - 7:20 - 20.21 miles)