Beautiful day! Man, it couldn't have been better.

I lined up with the 9:00mpm pace group. Noticed there was no-one in the 5mpm pace group. Thought about going up there and then running like a mad-dog for about 10 minutes...then I would have died and went back to the car. But it would have been fun. Opted not to do that :-)

A mile in we hit a pretty good hill...steep and long. By the Liberty Memorial. But since it was early in the race it wasn't a problem.

Was keeping pace with those around me for most of the race. At about mile 6 I slowed up a little and some folks passed me. I stayed with the next group most of the race.

At mile 10 it really started to get tough. I was trying to keep my pace, but it was a struggle. The lungs were fine, but the legs were not cooperating.

My left hip was good. I stopped to stretch it a couple of times. Funny though, the right one started to get tight. And remained that way for the last 5 or 6 miles. But I ran through it.

Goal was 2:10. Met that and then some :-) About halfway through the race I realized I could break 2:00. The last 2 to 3 miles I was pushing it...you would think a guy could get 24 seconds off his time. But, it wasn't going to happen. I was truly going as fast as I could the last mile.

Run Faster of course...

Start out further back in the pack. I noticed some faster people passing us during the first couple of miles. I guess their strategy was to start farther back and then run to their pace group. I would rather do that than start in the middle and have bunch of folks pass me.