well, I am a little disappointed, despite being 3rd in my age group . The wind was really bad, and I had an unfortunate emergency pit stop at mile 6 (probably cost me almost 2 minutes as I had to jog to a tree) ... but, I finished. It was hilly, but that did not really hurt as bad as the wind ... at about mile 8.5 or so it turned into a tailwind, but man oh man the first 8 miles hurt bad!
The GREAT news was that Dean ran a 1:19:52 and won 2nd masters (and $300 - so dinner is on him!)! Pretty good for a guy who was complaining about his knee this morning (and almost didn't start) - he looked really strong on the back part of the course!
Splits: 7:46, 7:43, 7:26, 7:42, 7:40, 8:57 (bathroom), 7:46, 15:14 (mile markers missing -- turnaround was at 7.5 miles -- was still windy and uphill until mile 9, which was where the mile markers seemed to be in place again) 7:51, 7:29, 8:13 (up hill again, but thankfully no wind!), 7:31, :43
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