Always a fun race but this year it was really nice to have 2 brothers, a sister, and a brother in law running it. We camped in tropic, didn't sleep well but sleep the night before a race never seems to matter much to me. I am very pleased with my race. I set a new personal best by about 1:42. My goal going in was to nail the last 4-5 miles that i have always struggled with. I have been trying to work on my speed as well as better endurance it seemed to pay off. The one major glitch in the race was that after about 3 miles i felt like i was going to need a #2 potty stop. I opted to take none of my gu and just enough water to wet my mouth. Dumped the rest on my head. I was able to avoid a potty stop but it was a little scary at times. I don't think that this had much of a negative impact on my overall time. mile1 5:56 mile2 6:01 mile3 5:24 mile4 5:28 mile 5 5:43 mile 6 5:36 mile 7 5:46 mile 8 5:51 mile 9 5:55 mile 10 5:51 mile 11 5:55 mile 12 6:01 mile 13 5:40 .1 in :33
As you can see I ran a consistant race for the most part. The winner was in my age group so that was cool. I was glad to see so many others have great races. Already looking forward to next years race.
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