Notes
Scotland Run 10K, 77-second PR!... was worried about fitness heading into it due to hip flexor costing me a 5-day block of running and no workouts in 3 weeks... planned to take it out at 5:55 pace through 5K so I would be able to negative-split, knowing that the 4th mile is super tough with Harlem Hill... Strava splits of 5:50, 5:43, 5:44 (17:56 NYRR 5K split), 5:54 (massive hill), 5:32, 5:40... ran a bit behind Alex and Eric for the first mile, then was passed by Jon Kline, who motored up to run with them while I ran next to David Roeske... Jon and Eric moved up as I caught Alex in the third mile and we ran together until 5K -- Skyler passed us after 2 miles, then proceeded to drop the sickest negative split ever (17:50 - 17:06)... at that point, I started pushing it, catching Jon and Eric around 4, at which point I passed them and tried to catch Skyler, who was pulling away massively... maintained pace through the finish, passing a couple more people... nobody passed me in the second half of the race, which felt awesome... not too much pain due to negative splits, definitely a great race... 6th Whippet, almost scored (MacLean/Olivier/Mark/Skyler/Jordan)