I'm certainly happy with winning my age group, however I was hoping for a bit better time. The course had a couple of hills early and in the middle and finished downhill. I took it out in 6:10, which is right what I was hoping to hit. Second mile was a struggle, but I maintained a pace of 6:18. Obviously I fell off the pace in the final mile. It was pouring rain and pretty chilly. A difficult day to get in a proper warm-up, so that may have hurt me. Mostly I'm disappointed about my training over the last two weeks. I have gotten in some weekend mileage, but the weekdays have been too full of work and coaching soccer. So my lack of mileage probably has hurt me. This wasn't a goal race, and my training has been more focused on the possibility of a November half-marathon. Still I'm also happy to have finished under 20 minutes. This is technically a PR for me by about seven seconds, so I shouldn't complain. If I had held the late summer training into September I would have been happier, but you can't train for everything at once.
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