Almost recovered from my head cold, but still felt it a bit on race morning. Warmed up and just didn't feel like running fast at all today - nose was running and legs felt slow and heavy. Did some jogging with a few surges and some stretching to loosen up the legs.
The first few kms felt good - as always in this race, as it's mostly downhill. Right through 4-5k I was doing good. Between 5k and 8k was the hardest part with a few hills and the lack of speed work starting to show up. I knew I would be strong on the hills and passed a few people on each of them. After 8k I knew the finish was close, tried to relax and run strong to the finish. Put some good distance on those running around me after 9k and passed a few extra people up the last hill.

Not much, it was more of a training run than a race. Good speed work day.

Stretching, drinking some water and talking to my wife and dad.


Lack of speed work, not treating it as an A race.


Good race, great atmosphere, SUPER awesome to see so many people out being active and participating in some way. Volunteers were everywhere, it was great!