The gun went off and it took a few minutes for the crowd to thin out enough for me to worry about my pace and not hitting other peoples legs. I started passing a fair amount of people early. I went out a bit too fast I think and it came back to bite me at the end. About halfway I could tell I didn't have enough in me to keep up my pace so I backed off a bit and that was the right choice. I struggled to hang on at the end but I managed to keep my pace around 8:30. My goal time was to break 50 but due to my severe lack of training it just wasn't in the cards today. Still my personal best by over 2.5 minutes, so it was a good run.


Splits
Mile 1: 8:10
Mile 2: 7:50
Mile 3: 7:59
Mile 4: 8:35
Mile 5: 8:33
Mile 6: 10:15 (last 1.2 miles)

Train more.

Didn't hang around long because I couldn't find anyone I knew. So I walked the 1.5 miles home as my warm down.