Notes
Turkey Trot! My first one ever. Took 2nd place overall. Felt like a million bucks today. Saw Matt Schneder on the warm-up and was like "what the frick?!? So then I had my teammate/roommate to toe the line with. The first mile has a ridiculous hill that I know about from the Bix, so I made sure to get out smart. I was in about 10th place through the mile and Zach Hird (NCC) and Brogan Austin (62:30 half marathon guy) got out in about 5:09 with the big hill. In the first 2 miles, Zach had 30 seconds on me. After the hill, I slowly moved into 3rd and then felt amazing and kept getting faster. Zach was a long shot away but I told myself I could catch him. I started gaining on him and I knew if I wanted a shot to beat him I had to move on the downhill with about a mile left. I caught him right at the bottom before the final turn with about .4 left. Then we started duking it out hard. It was awesome. We were neck and neck just grinding the last straight away. I had another gear at the end and got him by a couple seconds. We fist bumped and bro hugged at the end bc we both knew how much fun that last stretch was. He said his watch had him at 4:38 for the last mile so mine was probs right at 4:30. Really think I could have run a lot faster if I didn't get out quite so slow. However, getting out more conservative set me up for a nice and positive race anyways and going into my 5k in two weeks, I'm going to have to race smart if I want to make any sort of statement. Lifting in the evening.