The start was comical since the idea was to start at the sound of a conch shell but the conch shell blower failed miserably and was unable to produce any audible sound. Thus the announcer just yelled go and we were off.

The organizers did a good job of trying to stage the race based on expected pace. However, as always there was the couple of people who started on the line and walked! Why? Why do people do this? I will never understand this. Since this was a rather small race it did not take that long to get by the people that chose to do this but still it is unncessary and rude.

Started off comfortable. Was running next to Mike for the first 2 miles at which time he pulled away from me a little. Tried my best to keep him in sight during the rest of the race but was unable to catch him (he beat me by 30 seconds or so). At the 5K mark the course went up San Vicente which is a very mild hill. However, you could not convince my legs that it was a mild hill they felt as if it was a sizeable incline it was all I could do just to try to hold it together. Of course once we hit the turnaround at the end of mile 4 to head back down San Vicente all that extra pain was repained with a fast mile leading into the last 1.1 mile.

The last 0.1 I ended up in a sprint off with a guy who was trying to catch me from behind. Normally, I would not have cared but there was no way I was going to let the guy pass me, no way! Well he didn't so all is well.

Nothing. I ran this race 3 weeks after IMAZ and ran a personal best by over 4 minutes so I am absolutely stoked about the race.

Walked around a bit and picked up the race shirt. I was incredibly stiff for 3 days afterwards. I should probably stretch after the run next time.


To go faster I need to continue to build run mileage and work in some speed work but that is far from a new observation.


First year for this race. The event was well organized and a lot of fun I would definitely do it again next year.