Bret

The time is not indicative of the effort or the actual distance for this race.  It was actually over 3.2 miles on my GPS Garmin - Very "hilly" course for Florida.  Run  went from downtown Clearwater at Coachman park.  Started at the bottom of the hill on Drew and then turned onto Osceola right on the Court and the across the Bridge to the Clearwater Memorial Causeway.  The elevation of the Bridge is about 100 ft and so the first mile was a start with a sharp uphill then a gradual incline to the bridge which then has about a .3 of a mile of another sharp climb to the top.  Then down the other side and turn around and back over the bridge.  Coming back the course did not give the full benefit of the downhill of the bridge but instead went down a "helix" (sort of spiral ramp to the road below) then back up another hill.  I was right at 6 min pace at the 2 mile mark - but really suffered a bit on the uphill third mile and though I was at about 18:35 at three miles - the finish line location was evidently mismeasured.  Came in 5th overall.  Felt as though I gave this a better effort  than my most recent 5k - and really for the most part, handled a non-typical Florida course pretty well. 

Immediately left race to drive to Brandon to catch Delaney's club soccer game - missed the first 15 minutes or so.  Then went to delicious late breakfast with Tracy and Delaney at Mimi's Cafe.