Most people went out too fast and trashed their legs going down the first hill and were in pain the whole rest of the run finishing with with less than stellar times. I did the slowest possible jog I could until I was well clear of the first hill then I slowly picked up the juice. I the last 1/2 mile I passed about 8 people. I passed Kyle Brady with about 150m to go. I knew where the finish was because I had jogged the whole course in warm up. He couldn't see the finish and let me pass him because I was at a dead sprint and he didn't know how much further we had to go. I waited too long to pass him though because when we turned the last corner and he could see how close we were to the finish he cranked up to the a full sprint too and caught me. He has sprinted me down at the end of the race twice. I was hoping to pay him back the favor today.

Over all it was a well planned and well executed race plan. I could have shaved some time off the first half of the race if I hadn't gone out so slow, but then I wouldn't have had the incentive to try to run down Kyle at the end so the only difference would have been Kyle would have run me down from the back instead of me running him down from the back and then being over taken again. :-)

This was a fast course. I was running it for fun and really was satisfied with how well I did considering I hadn't been training for this distance and certainly not for a down hill race. I was not peaking in training either so this was a for fun race that I did well in.