Because of injury! this was the first stand alone road race I had done in about 1.5 years. I have been trying to keep my training pace nice and easy to avoid further injury, so I had no idea what type of pace I would be capable of keeping. My hamstring has also been a little twingy lately, so the plan was to try to keep a pace just a bit faster than training. However, once I got going I got caught up in the race and kept a bit faster pace than planned. It is nowhere near what my PR pace is, but I am quite happy with the result.
As I was running I kept picking out people ahead of me to catch and pass. The people I picked usually were women wearing pink or some frilly outfit. I was able to catch and pass everyone I selected. With about 1.5 miles to go I passed the last woman on my hit list and then was almost immediately passed by Joe. His passing made me pick up the pace a bit to try and hold on to him. He got away pretty easily, but trying to keep up for a bit stopped me from slowing down the last mile. In fact, my splits were consistent the entire race.


Nothing, I am happy with we're i am now.

Grabbed water, walked around and spoke to a few people then headed into the VIP area to get the Panera supplied goodies and Dog fish head beer :) That's right, VIPs got good beer, not some crappy bear like PBR (spartan race I'm talking to you). The great unwashed masses got no beer. Too bad this wasn't a longer race or a hotter day because there was no limit to the amount of beer you could have, but somehow I couldn't see/ stomach more than one glass.
Waited around for Jancie to finish, then eat/ drink her stuff then left.


Track Shack puts on most of the local races and all the Disney World races, so they know what they are doing and put on a great event.