Race started on time, not a large crowd, but a lot of older guys like myself including Paul Brown, Tom Prentice and Frank Campbell...all tuning up for Grandma's. Hooked up with a buddy Mike Wischmann and talked about working together in hopes of hitting 6:40's. The course was nice for the first 4.5 miles, but at that point we took a left heading North, right into the wind...holy shit. Mike and I took turns breaking the wind for the next couple of miles before he fell back a bit. We were running in 5th and 6th at the time...I passed a runner at 8, on an uphill buckin' the wind (?) and another at mile 10...then Tom and Frank came crankin' past me...wow they looked strong...and then the cat I passed at 8 came past me on a mission (he would go on to finish 3rd)...so there I was, 6th place...for the next 8 miles...all alone...Reiko was nice enough to ride with me some on her bike, but was that ever boring, and hilly, but the wind left us at 10-11 miles. Here are how my splits ended: (18.77 miles according to the Garmin)
1: 6:36
2: 6:37
3: 6:38
4: 6:37
5: 6:34
6: 6:35
7: 6:26
8: 6:39
9: 6:32
10: 6:34
11: 6:31
12: 6:29
13: 6:31
14: 6:47 (Uphill!)
15: 6:35
16: 6:39
17: 6:41
18: 6:32
18.77: 4:56...Finish time of 2:03:26...6th overall/3rd 40-49
...damn right achilles a little sore post-run...ooops :(
I have a few pics to post as soon as I can figure how to add Flickr to the blog.
Congrats also to Mike, Chuck, Allison, Karl and Amy...nice running!
Derek
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