Felt the need to pee at the beginning but the lines were too long, so I decided to hold it. For a while I lost everyone. I was standing in the middle of a crowd sort of to the FOP. There are so many people to block the wind and I actually felt warm. Walked towards the back of the crowd and found Ontherun, tri_again and swadland. Lost Kathy. Thought she might be at the front as she wanted to use this race as her TT.

Couldn't even brisk walk at the beginning of race start. Clock showed 7 min by the time we reached the start line.

Mile 1: long stretch of uphill. Had to keep it slow. The 4 of us stucked together. Was a little worry of the pace. I was trying to make it in less than 50 min, that is a 10 min/mile pace at the slowest. First mile was 11 min. But it was uphill and very crowded. Had to run sideways a lot to avoid people. Too many groups of walkers walking 7-8 people abreast. Or walking their dogs.

Mile 2: swadland turned to the 5k route. Picked up pace as the course flattened. Left the main road and turned into some residential area. Local people form groups of bands playing music and cooking. Took a sip of water at the drink station.

Mile 3: Some down hill. Getting a negative split. Spent most of the time listening to my newly uploaded HK pop music in my mp3 player, and at the same time listening to Ontherun talk.

Mile 4: Ontherun was still doing most of the talking. I wish I could talk that much without getting out of breath while running. Took another sip of water from the station. Beginning to feel a pull on my right butt. Started to rain again. Looked at the time and said if we keep at the current pace we'd make it in less than 50 min.

Mile 5: Ontherun and tri_again began to run fast. I tried to follow them. The start of mile 5 was a down hill so it was no problem. But my right glute was getting tight. They were practically sprinting at the flat of the road turning into the finish. Saw Joanne's son Nick at the corner cheering for us. The last 300 yard was an uphill. I tried to keep up with them but they just pulled away. Joe cross the line first, follwed by Joanne, then me.

Don't know.

Follow the croded into the garage, got some water and a bagel. Got the apple pie. By that time it was raining quite heavinly and I started to feel the chill. Didn't want to get soaked in the rain and we decided to head out.


Fun race on Thanskgiving. This is a good way to create a caloric deficit before the big meal.
My watch's time = 48:42
Official time = 48:34