Notes
After all the accumulation of pre race excitement the race started. I got out pretty good for the first minute then relaxed the pace and began to settle into a rythym. A lot of people moved passed me and i let them. I kept my rythym pretty well while running with a few different people and did so for the first 5 miles but beginning the 6th mile when we had to run over the two bridges I started to lose my rythym and probably a bit of form as well. most of mile 6, 7, and 8 was spent in no man's land and not until late in mile 7 and 8 did people start passing me. I tried to go with them but none of these efforts were very effective. Going into mile 9 I got passed by someone but they didn't get away from them and i started to get back in rythem and then once i hit mile 9 I opened into another gear and managed to finish alright. 75th place out of 12,200. 4th place in the 23 and under age group so just barely missed a trophy.