Heres my splits I think it tells the tale:
mi Pace (min/mi)
1 8:14
2 8:28
3 8:16
4 8:31
5 8:45
6 8:48
7 7:33

I started off fast, well fast for me that is...LOL. Then I fell into the just hang in there mode for for mile 5 and 6. After mile 6 I picked it up and felt pretty good crossing the finish line.

I think when I hit mile 4 my legs were starting to slow down and the lack of water was catching up to me. Also my 3 year old had an accident in his bed the night before so we had a visitor at midnight. Around 4:30 I gave up trying to sleep in a king sized bed with a wife and a 3 year (too many elbows and feet) and took the alarm clock into another room for about 3 hours of sleep.

Really add it all up and it should have been a disaster but it was a Personal Record!

More water and I think if I had one I would have used an energy gel......really no excuse in the future not to bring my own.

Lot's of water oh and a beer - a new microbrew was opening up and they had a keg. Hey I'm only human....


45 miles on the bike on Sat, not enough sleep, or enough water......ugg a lot


The race was a disaster in planning and execution. This year they added a 5K and I think they greatly under estimated the logistics of the pre-race registration. They were simply way understaffed and not organized. I could go into the nitty gritty of all the details but I got on the bus at 8:30 to go to the start (registration was supposed to close at 8:30) and the table was still mobbed with people. I knew the race was going to start late but I didn't expect an hour late.

They had 2 water stops which I guess it pretty average for a 10K but I felt like they didn't anticipate the weather or the late start and really a 3rd stop would have been really nice to have.