My goal was to hold 7 minute miles for the race. Went out hard and was just under 7-minutes at mile one and felt that I could keep around 7s for the remaining 3-miles. What I had forgotten about this course is while it is very flat, the first mile is slightly downhill and the 2nd and 3rd mile there is a slight uphill.I wasn't close to 7mm for the remaining miles.

I never really felt that I died on the course as I was not getting passed much and I was not doing much passing as well. I was wearing my garmin and tried to surge once in a while and get my pace under 7-minutes but I just could not hole it for long. The last 10-minutes or so I just quit looking at it and ran on how I felt.

I would like to say that there is something that I could do that would have allowed me to finish under 7-minute miles. But really, the race went as well I could have for me. I don't think I could have really pushed any harder and the only thing I can do to get faster is run more and consistently focus on speed.

Grabbed a bottle of water and a bagel and headed to the beer garden. :) met up with the friend I carpooled with and a few other people. We hung out until they closed the beer garden. Fun times!


I had a bike accident over the summer which through my training and racing schedule off for the year. This was only my second race this year and the first stand-alone running race for me. I may have been better prepared had i raced a little more over the summer. But really, right now this is about as fast as I can run 4-miles.


I've always enjoyed doing the Mile High Turkey Trot but it is not exactly convenient for me to get down to Washington Park on Thanksgiving day. My wife and kids originally said they wanted to run so I signed up last week thinking we would all go down together. They changed their minds so I decided to go down anyway and really had a good time seeing some old friends. And temps in the 60s on Thanksgiving Day! Really couldn't have been better.