Not a great day for me but since it was my first race in over two years I am happy to just be back out there again. Going into the race I was not feeling great and definetly not expecting much. With the nagging ankle and foot problems along with the cough I was not too excited. This course has to be one of the toughest 5K courses I have ever run if not the toughest. Kind of lost it mentally during the 2nd mile. I felt like I checked out mentally and just backed way off. Around 2 miles I was passed by a couple runners and that somewhat woke me up again. Mile splits were 5:53, 6:24, and 5:31 according to GPS. The first two mile markers agreed almost exactly with the GPS. However for some reason the third mile on GPS and the 3m cone were off by 8 seconds. From 3m cone to finish was measured at .1 so it was accurate but overall distance came out as 3.14 miles. I guess I must not have run the tangents very good during the last mile or the GPS was off by .04 during mile three. 12 miles total for the day after running with kids when I got home from the race. It was nice to meet a lot of the fastrunningblog community in person and it seems as quite a few had good races today. Congrats!
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