1m warmup w/ a stride
13.15m@5:34 pace. Wow that course was tougher than I anticipated! Lots of golf course hills and windy paths through the rose gardens. Very unique and fun race. I'm really glad I did it. Brett Hales shot off from the gun and beat me by 3.5 minutes while taking a wrong turn that probably cost him 1-2 minutes...so yeah he litearlly would have beat me by a mile. I'm okay with that. Me, Jacob Bradosky (3rd, recently transfered to Air Force base in Clearfield) and Jace Nye (4th) ran together the first 5 miles or so, taking turns leading pretty naturally. When Jake and I broke away we were probably pretty evenly split between leading duties. We both seemed to be feeling about the same so neither of us made any strong moves till about a mile out he picked up the pace. I picked up the pace again with 800 to go and then again drastically w/ 200 to go to get him by 10 seconds. Not that it was an easy race by any means, but I feel that if someone else had been further ahead i maybe could have run a minute or so faster by sitting. Alas, that wasn't the case and I'm pleased w/ my effort and performance.
2.5m cooldown and then walk through the tulip festival w/ Jill and Dylan.
splits: 5:29, 5:40, 5:28, 5:39, 5:44, 5:29, 5:42, 5:30, 5:41, 5:39, 5:37, 5:14, .15m@ 4:21.
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