Ran a 3 mile race today to kick off the heart health fair..Best part is it was free!! Anyway-got to the line about 3 minutes before starting-so no warm up or anything. Started with some boys-but some of them petered off by the first mile and it was only me and one boy just ahead of me. First mile was 6:09, the boy kept slowly getting ahead.. Second mile was 6:20-I was trying to reel the boy in-but he was too far ahead. Third mile showed 5:39-but I think the course was only 2.91 miles instead of 3-judging by my garmin) I really think my final mile would have been around 6:14. Anyway-I was second overall-the boy beat me by 23 seconds and I won a 25 dollar gift certificate-not bad for a free race. Felt really relaxed the whole time-looking back I know I could've pushed it more-but I didn't. I'm saving the pushing for the half marathon coming up.
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