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Van Wert 4 Miler. Official time 20:35 for 26th place. Got a PR. First off course was 100% short and apparently, they measured from the centerline which is annoying. Everyone took the tangents of course and we all got around 3.93 miles on our watches. I would have probably been about 21:00 so that's what I'm putting in my log. Not a bad first race back but not great. I guess what did I expect though? Felt good all day and on warmup but I got weirdly nervous before the race. Legs felt like jelly from the gun cause of nerves. First mile in 5:10 and I thought that would be conservative but the race just felt rough and tough the whole time. Was with Ben and Greg the first two miles but then Ben took off (only one that was happy with his race overall) and Greg fell behind. The two lead women were crushing it and I thought I'd get chicked but I passed the lead woman around 3.25. Looked at my watch at 3.12 miles in and was at 16:25ish which makes sense. Kinda just stayed consistently slow during the race. After the race, everyone was saying how their pace during the race was their half pace so I'm happy it wasn't just me. Fun race but simply just not in shape and this confirmed it.