since this was a fun race and not a serious race, and since it was my season ender, I decided to go a little harder during my easy 2/3. I shot for increasing my pace every single mile with the last 5k @ best effort. The result was that the race was very, very hard. But that was also because of the humidity.

I would stick with a first SLOW third at a steady slow pace before increasing pace. At the end of the race I was unable to increase further and if I'd stayed in the 11's for 5 miles or so, then worked into 10s, perhaps the last few miles could have been 9s.

Walking back about a mile.


HEAT AND HUMIDITY! horrible!


Has really become a world-class race in the past few years with bag drop, very organized, good giveways and finally improved tech tee. Just need to do a better job of organizing the free beer line!