I made a conscious effort to keep my knees up and stay relaxed.

5K at 18:40
10K at 37:44
8 miles at 48:58
10 miles at 1:01:34

At about 10.5 things started to fall apart. I felt great other than a horrible blister that formed right on the end and top of the second toe of my right foot. Times after that kept dropping precipitously, running the last 5K in 20:18!!! To top it off, my toe feels like it was pounded with a hammer, painful and will possibly lose the nail. I feel I could have run close to 1:20:00 if my toe would not have had the problems it had. I felt pretty good pretty much the whole way otherwise so can't feel too disappointed.

Fantastic running weather! Low 50s, sunny, light breeze from the south.

Eat and drink a little more prior to the race.

Blister on top of blister formed on second toe of right foot. Also, black toenail (runner's toe) on same toe was very painful starting at 10.5 miles. Slowed me from a 6:09 pace at 10th mile to an average overall pace of 6:15.


I would definitely like to run this race next year. I am happy with my overall performance considering it's only been a bit over 8 months since I started running again after a 12 year layoff.