I got to the park early and was able to get in a good warmup. They call everyone to the line way beforehand. I didn't even have my flats on yet.
At the start it took about a quarter if a mile for things to settle in where they should be. I was right with the front pack with Jaxon Hansen and some other guy. The three of us were right together still at the mile. We hit that in 5:40, which was good since that mile is slightly uphill. Right then the other guy just took off. Jaxon and I picked it up too, but not nearly as much as he did. I was just feeding off of Jaxon in that second mile. That one was a 5:20 and the other guy had quite the gap on us. I started to pull away from Jaxon and he yelled telling me I knew where I was and what I needed to do at that point in the race. I knew then that he was just trying to get in a good workout. I closed as hard as I could in the last mile. I was happy with the time and effort.
While all the nonrunners were still finishing the race I was able to get a two mile cooldown in. There were lots of congrats after.
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