Legs felt good after the long warm-up. As we were lining up I was looking for a guy in my age-group that I always run with at races. Found him and we were off.

Pace felt good right from the start. Got to the first mile at 6:15. That is faster than I was expecting. I told the aforementioned guy that I wouldn't be around to push him today, since I had logged a few miles before.

At the 2 mile mark I noticed there was a pack of 15-20 runners about 200 yards ahead of me. I figured if I was going to do any good I couldn't let the pack get away. So I surged to get with them. I ran up beside Michael and he said "I thought you were taking it easy today?" I replied "I didn't say that I just said I probably wouldn't run very fast today" The pack splintered pretty fast and I was the third one from the front when it broke (Good Feeling). The gazelles had about a 500 yrd lead on the rest of us by then.

After that it got fairly strung out and I stayed right on Michaels heels until about the 8.5 mile mark. I think he had decided my day had been good enough. I think he ended up passing a couple of people and he beat me by about 20 secs.

Was really suprised I felt strong the whole way and didn't slow much at all. Mile 9 was the slowest at 6:23. Mile 2 was the fastest at 5:57. All the rest were right around 6:10-15.

Not sure here. Maybe not do 8 miles before hand. But I'm not training for this race.

After finishing I ran back out on the course to catch Greg. He was about half a mile back. Lonnie, another good friend, was right behind him and I kept telling Greg that he was coming and he was. Greg managed to hold him off.

I had to leave right after the race so I told Greg to pick up my hardware if I won anything. And with that I was off to watch the little one.


Testicular Fortitude. 8 miles before hand.


There just needs to be more water stations. But the temp at this race isn't usually in the 60's either.

I'll update the the result after I see them. I think I was about 12 or 13.