Felt good till about 30k, then started to loose steam, esp at hills. Last 10k was pretty hard. But all in all, pretty happy with it considering I trained minimally for only abt 6 weeks due to lack of snow to ski on. And it was a beautiful day, wax didn't suck (but wasn't screaming fast either) had a lot of fun talkin to people on the course. Finish was deluded with lots of people cheering - cool! Every yr I question why I'm doing it around bitch hill, but as soon as its over, I want to do it again next year :) so that's the plan, another Birkie next year!